Quotes About Dependence

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

I'm not so much a good friend as I am the saviour who wants you to worship him forever.

I knew this would happen, Marla says. You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

Everything is nothing by itself.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

Perseguís a la gente de quien dependéis, preparamos vuestras comidas, recogemos vuestras basuras, conectamos vuestras llamadas, conducimos vuestras ambuláncias, y os protegemos mientras dormís, así que no te metas con nosotros.

Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.

You can't be friends with a droid.

God, he knew, helped those who helped themselves. But wasn't God also there to catch you if you fell?

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

would not, could not, make a significant overture. My pride depended on this. She would have needed to make the effort, enough to be openly vulnerable; she would have had to risk my revenge. I like to think I wouldn't have rebuffed her, but it's possible that I would have. It's possible that I would have felt the need to exercise the power if I'd had it. But she didn't grant me the opportunity

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Much of what is considered good in little girls is considered downright repulsive in little boys. Physical timidity or hypercautiousness, being quietly well behaved, and depending on others for help and support are thought to be natural - if not outright charming - in girls. Boys, however, are actively discouraged from the dependent forms of relating, which are considered sissyish in male children.

An elevator doesn't exist without its freight. If there's no one to get on, the elevator remains in quiescence. The elevator and the passenger need each other.

its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. "I'm caught," Cora said. "You choose to be with him." Homer looked puzzled. He took out his notebook, turned to the last page, and scribbled.

there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon their own heads. They were unable to extinguish the fire. They were dependent,as always, on others. They had no notions of self-reliance. They burned and then poured empty buckets down upon themselves. It had always been so.

Holding up my credit card so Gilley could see, I snipped it in half. 'You act like I don't have the numbers, expiration date, and security code memorized,' he mocked.

What does all this prove? What has come through to us from the past? Two things: everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there are, and everything depends on each person, through action and not mere words, creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.

Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In short: Everything is becoming absurd. So where is there room for human freedom?

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

If anyone could have saved me it would have been you.

Flush has grown an absolute monarch and barks one distracted when he wants a door opened," Mrs. Browning wrote. "Robert," she continued, "declares that the said Flush considers him, my husband, to be created for the especial purpose of doing him service, and really it looks rather like it.

the liftman in the tube is an eternal necessity...