Quotes About Dependence

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In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her "parachute -- and the other accepts this role -- both will fall to the ground.

This book is my obliging you. This is a book I never would have dared write, if I did not feel protected and obligated by your madness.

By their dependence on the spoken word for information, people were drawn together into a tribal mesh . . . the spoken word is more emotionally laden than the written. . . . Audile-tactile tribal man partook of the collective unconscious, lived in a magical integral world patterned by myth and ritual, its values divine.3

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive. In systems like the weather, sensitive dependence on initial conditions was an inescapable consequence of the way small scales intertwined with large.

I turned away, already wondering if he'd stick to the handout's condition, or if he'd head straight for his regular supplier. A tenner wouldn't buy him much, so maybe he'd just drink it away. I let it go: I could only make the offer – the rest was up to him. I'd learned a long time ago it was all you could do.

the mutually depending, trusting and loving association between man and animal.

I exist because of You. Before you I was nothing. Because of You I have laughter in my eyes, and my heart flows with love, Because of YOU.

I am who I am because of you. However frightening or strange that person may prove to be.

When a man loves a woman she becomes his weakness. When a woman truly loves a man he becomes her strength.

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.

His wife was a little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk.

Jennifer, some people is suppose' to have only what other people let them have.' Lord God, her age and white and believing somet'ing like that.

Never plead your merits before God. Plead mercy. It is mercy we need. We need it from first to last, and we need it every single day.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

through his hair nervously. "It's simple, really. The more we ask technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it.

MY POINT IS that Trip likes to hang out with Maddie as much as I do. He has to

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

We have long depended on an America which has got a clear sense of its stakes in the world and how much it depends on the world as well as how much the world and its allies and friends depend on the United States of America, and we hope this will continue.