Quotes About Dependence

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...

I had a life once. Now I have a computer.

...I am so happy, I feel like a firm, rich, healthy root, Rejoicing in what is to come. How I depend on you utterly... How everything that will be, will not be of me, Nor of either of us, But of both of us.

Can you do anything more fundamental than to raise food? Even Einstein has to eat.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

Kalpteki hasta?klar?n birço?unun kökeni, yakîn eksikli?ine ve Allah'a güvenmemeye dayan?r.

?nsan, "Yapaca??m i?e ba?kalar? ne der?" diye kayg?land?kça, Allah'?n hidayetiyle aras?ndaki perde kal?nla??r.

The only thing that can bring unfailing joy to the soul is to understand and know God. Everything depends on what He is. He has created us and put us in our present environment, and we are absolutely in His power.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

When Christ becomes all you need, you will find happy all around you, because he never disappoints.

At each step from the inner being to the surface there is an apparent improvement, which appears to be more positive; yet every step towards the surface entails limitation and dependence.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.