Quotes About Dependence

MOST TRAVEL, AND CERTAINLY the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. This risky suspension of disbelief is often an experience freighted with anxiety. But what's the alternative? Usually there is none.

If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Because the act of surrender means: I trust you.

Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve. 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

But there is also something inherently shameful in the rescuer-rescued relationship - the humiliation of being reduced to depending on another person for survival - and that shame expresses itself and resentment toward rescuers… Gratitude is what makes you hate someone.

Face it, Jorlan, we are the lesser sex. That is why our name-givers take care of us. Left alone, we would fall to ruin. We are intellectually inferior. Left unmonitored, our innate male aggression would destroy this world.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

She clicked on Mae's life preserver.

Who's taking care of you?" "Them, for now," said Julie, indicating Robie and Vance. "Is she in protective

Yet today, all over the developed world, welfare states are on shaky ground. The tax rates necessary to sustain the massive transfer programs are crippling Western economies. Dependence

Buddhist philosophy, notion of mutually dependent origination, everything originates together, mutually dependent. it is close to implicate order, which says that everything comes out of a good and everything is interrelated, and that underlying it there is no substance that can be defined. that also give rise to karma, but karma too becomes changeable since even our own state of mind is part of the whole, and when it changes, the whole changes, so the karma changes.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally.

Trust me. - Silk

the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

Help, the working Account Representative called, feeling the stir of a tinily remembered humid wind and pausing, again, to look behind him, past the Brougham's black hood and the carelessly dropped safety helmet beside the white cycle, at the Ramp that spiraled up and out of sight toward a street, empty and bright, before the Building, empty and bright, dispossessed, autonomous and autonomic. Bent to what two lives required, below everything, he called for help again and again.

Picture millions of average nonabnormal North Americans, all implanted with Briggs electrodes, all with electronic access to their own personal p-terminals, never leaving home, thumbing their personal stimulation levers over and over.

True Christianity is nothing but the continual dependence upon God through Christ for all life, light, and virtue; and the false religion of Satan is to seek that goodness from any other source. So

Amelia stood scared and silent as William thus suddenly broke the chain by which she held him, and declared his independence and superiority. He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.

Our entire economy is built now on electronic money. It's all faith, and if a crack appears in that faith, then what?

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II

every thing in your hand if you bi lave on God