Quotes About Dependence

He left immediately, of course. He never wasted a beat when it came to Scarlett. She was his lifeforce, his meaning. He was nothing before Scarlett and he would return to nothing after her. When she needed him, he came to life, like a marionette taken out of a box.

And I'm so sorry that I am such a loser. That I make such shit choices all the time, that I am fucking thirty-three and I don't own anything and that you have to keep propping me up and bailing me out and that I can't even make a marriage last for longer than two months.' She sniffed and wiped tears from her cheeks. 'And I'm sorry that I'm all you've got. You deserve better than me, Dad, you really, really do. I'm so sorry.

Do you know what a balance wheel is?" She shook her head slightly. "There's one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It's what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn't work. You're my balance wheel, Poppy." -Harry Rutledge

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

It was insane to let a creature so perfectly beautiful and artlessly spirited and vulnerable as his wife venture out into a world that could crush her with casual unconcern, and he had no choice but to allow it. But he had no illusions about ever being comfortable with it. For the rest of his life, he would feel a stab of dread every time she walked out the door, leaving him there with his heart wide open.

The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.

Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.

Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.

I was only a means of making him live, he was my reason for living, he had delivered me from myself. What shall I do now?

Si, sono contenta che tu sia rimasto lo stesso. Se t'avessero spostato, ridipinto, piantato sul margine d'un'altra strada, non avrei avuto più nulla di fisso per orientarmi. Tu mi sei indispensabile: io cambio; tu, è inteso che resti immutabile ed io misuro i miei cambiamenti in rapporto a te.

it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.

What a frail thing a human being is—and without the Passenger, that is all I was, a poor imitation of a human being. Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.

Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.

You have few responsibilities, few worries, few challenges. Although this may seem to be a satisfactory arrangement for you, it is time for you to consider the price you pay to maintain your dependence. It costs you your will, your freedom, and your pride. It costs you your very self.

If someone could harness the power of my love for this dog, I swear I could singlehandedly end our nation's dependence on foreign oil.

Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation. Then you wind up chasing after something you have no control over, and should that something suddenly place its focus somewhere else, or change its mind and decide you're no longer very interesting, you end up with a full-blown identity crisis.

counter-cultural.  We're so used to having more than enough that many of us have never truly learned what it is to trust God to provide what we need.  Yet sometimes God will lead us to this place to teach us to trust Him, to rely on His provision and to experience the wonder of His love.

The refrigerator was one of the main things my mother prayed to. She said that a cold beer could make you love a refrigerator.

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up.

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one another. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.

don't rely too much upon that unsteady flicker.

So ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for.