Quotes About Dependence

I mean the breaking of continuity. When you lose your place in the stream of time, you become a person who is completely dependent on the social.

I carry you always. You must trust in Me especially during times of desolation.

Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river, make me guess the names of birds, or challenge me to count the silvery fish in a school, there was nothing for me to do. Without somebody to be somebody to, it was as though I wasn't somebody myself.

It's strange, talking about love. I used to hate the word. Hate is too strong. I was sick of reading about it in books, hearing it in songs, watching it in films. It seemed such a huge burden to place on another person - to love them; to give them something so unbelievably fragile and expect them not to break it or lose it or leave it behind on the No.96 bus.

We were not created to live independently of Him; that brings insanity. It is only in humble dependence upon the Creator that mind and emotions enter into soundness and trustworthiness. Being

Trump admired her not because she had the political skills to protect him, but for her pliant dutifulness. Her job was to devote herself to his care and feeding.

Trump demanded subservience, but when he got it he was suspicious of the person providing it.

Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.

Without Renn - without his fierce, brave, secretive, complicated Renn - he would never be more than half-alive. In the shelter Marupai's snores stuttered to a halt, then resumed. Marupai was what Torak would become if he lost Renn.

One thing I know about husbands: They sure do like to be needed.

Father, forgive me for neglecting to meet with You every day. Time away from You is time away from my source. I need You, Lord. Especially now. Help.

But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity.

TVs have become smart and humans have become stupid. Dependence on technology is rendering a human depleted of inner intelligence. With mechanization man has learnt to become mechanical. Don't get completely programmed and be digitized, switch on internally, become intelligent, internalize and MickeyMize.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada, nada de lo pasado, podría reproducirse. Era aquella una sensación angustiosa de dependencia, le ponía nervioso la imposibilidad de dar marcha atrás en el reloj del tiempo.

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. And the most effective form of socialization is achieved when people identify so thoroughly with the social order that they no longer can imagine themselves breaking any of its rules.

Socializing of this kind mimics friendship relations, but it provides few of the benefits of the real thing. Everyone takes pleasure in occasionally passing the time of day chatting, but many people become extremely dependent on a daily "fix" of superficial contacts. This is especially true for individuals who cannot tolerate solitude, and who have little emotional support at home.

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments. And

Allies on whom you could not rely were sometimes worse than no allies at all.

How does God grow people? Often by reminding them how big he is and how small we are. By introducing mystery and tension and difficulty into life so that we might be forced to move beyond trusting our faith and religious systems to actually trusting him.

What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?