Quotes About Dependence

You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd: Whip me such honest knaves.

I felt loss at every hand. The loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense of self had all but disappeared, along with any self-reliance. This loss can quickly degenerate into dependence, and from dependence into infantile dread. One dreads the loss of all things, all people close and dear. There is an acute fear of abandonment.

What I mean in simple terms, Reverend, is that once the alarm went out, there was niggers everywhere—who were as determined to protect and save their masters as you were to murder them. They was simply livin' too well!

The less dependent we feel on others to satisfy our needs for happiness, the more mature and truly satisfying our relationships with others are likely to be. The less needy we feel, the less conflict there will be and the easier it will be for us to get to Yes in challenging situations.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life.

To them the mine was a benevolent Moloch to whom they fed their children at an early age and from whom they took their daily bread.

What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by. 1940, 10 AUGUST, CHEQUERS.

un agente de seguros. Qué horrible profesión: alimentar a tu familia de la paranoia ajena.

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie te topas con que tienes que confiar.

A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

Capitalism has severed the ties of personal dependence only to revive dependence under cover of bureaucratic rationality.

Over time, a subtle cancer spread: where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals did all the fighting and fixing we used to handle ourselves; they even took over our fun, playing our sports while we sat back and watched.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

No, my friend. There is nothing for us to do. Don't you see? When He is here, we do not need to be. He is sufficient for everything!

he loved what it felt like to turn a situation that he couldn't control over to a God who could.

Its attempted takeover of Unocal was blocked by Congress on national security grounds.5 China's growing dependence on oil imports has caused it to acquire interests in Kazakhstan, Russia, Venezuela, Sudan

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

You don't have to come with me," Ash said. "I only brought you along because you're good with a knife. And got us the uniforms. And the explosives." Lila snorted. "Sorry I'm not pulling my weight.

Maybe Charlotte was right, and I was hopelessly addicted to breaking rules oprinciple.

I was not aware of being alone; I could not feel it. I needed those I loved, it did not occur to me that those I loved did not need me. But now my eyes were open, and misfortune had already let mistrust enter my soul.