Quotes About Dependence

Without self confidence we are as babes in the cradle.

but that was too harsh a phrase — could depend so

Two things alone remained to him in which he now put any trust: dogs and nature.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

the lot in life of any particular sheep depended on the type of man who owned it.

I need you, Nick." I stare up into his haunted eyes. "Don't you know? That's where all of my wants and needs begin and end…with you.

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

Odias la idea de no saber qué está pasando, de no poder hacer nada para evitarlo, de no ser tú. Tienes miedo de no llevar las riendas, de que otro te domine a ti. Estás demasiado acostumbrado a ser tú él que lo sabe y lo controla todo.

Me siento como un náufrago rescatado por un tiburón. Sabes que, mientras sigas prendido a su aleta, no te ahogarás, pero en cualquier momento puede darse la vuelta y darte una dentellada... y temes y odias al tiburón, porque dependes de él, porque no pueden abandonarlo, pero lo siento, amigo, no había amables delfines cerca para salvarte. Esto es todo lo que hay. Muerte y dolor.

She needed someone to worship; he needed slavish devotion. They became inseparable companions.

Well, I keep forgetting. You never listened to my suggestions. Never asked for my advice. When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.

Sometimes it's not that you don't want help. It's that you can't bear to be offered help that just keeps turning out not to be enough after all.

I'd begun to take for granted that he'd always be around... The only problem with all of this was that I wasn't exactly holding up my end of the deal.

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled.

and on whose skill, luck, and good judgment their lives depended.

whose lives depended on the food acquired in the Canaries.

Although Magellan was normally meticulous in preparing the ships, this time he was too trusting of his suppliers.

The Sufi must feed daily at the waters of the Original Wholeness. We are completely dependent upon Allah. There is no existence but the Ultimate Reality, nor does anything exist other than the Ultimate Reality, 'in that you are His Form, and He is your Spirit.

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I'm missing something. I know that there's something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

How could the colonists starve in the midst of plenty? One reason was that the English feared leaving Jamestown to fish, because Powhatan's fighters were waiting outside the colony walls. A second reason was that a startlingly large proportion of the colonists were gentlemen, a status defined by not having to perform manual labor.

Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.

As the city clocks struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs Clennam was wheeled by Jeremiah Flintwinch of the cut-down aspect to her tall cabinet. When she had unlocked and opened it, and had settled herself at its desk, Jeremiah withdrew—as it might be, to hang himself more effectually—and her son appeared.

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Whenever I have not had you, Agnes, to advise and approve in the beginning, I have seemed to go wild, and to get into all sorts of difficulty. When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!" I