Quotes About Dependence

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

I'm so rude. 'If you have trouble with anything...' I don't deserve to have anyone say that to me! 'When you need help, ask for help!' If I asked for help, I would just be...spoiled. Because I haven't done anything yet. I haven't done a single thing. By myself... or starting with myself...I've always just gone with the flow.

Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.

Popular literature now depends more than ever on the wishes of the audience, not the creativity of the artist.

What did we do before we were so tethered? I

Without Pegi, I'm an island without an ocean

Self-surrender is essential, and by that is meant the confession of personal impotence.

Often our most elaborate and original thoughts are determined by another.

He's the boss, after all," Troy thought as he left on his wife's arm.

we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us.

I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all my editing on-screen. In using the word processor, I had become something of a word processor myself.

Our brains become adept at forgetting, inept at remembering. Our growing dependence on the Web's information stores may in fact be the product of a self-perpetuating, self-amplifying loop. As our use of the Web makes it harder for us to lock information into our biological memory, we're forced to rely more and more on the Net's capacious and easily searchable artificial memory, even if it makes us shallower thinkers.

it has become almost impossible for us to imagine what life was like before electricity began to flow through the sockets in our walls.

In the most extreme expression of the determinist view, human beings become little more than "the sex organs of the machine world,

In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.

It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

I call him Pops because he is my true father; my creator. And we've had a special relationship. Whenever I felt lost or needed help or guidance, I could count on Pops.

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride — he's my dad — and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

The difference between belief and trust can be monumental. We may believe in others, but do we really trust them? To firmly trust people means putting your own successes and health in their hands.

Marghe was perturbed by her sense of security in Aoife's presence, recognizing the feeling for what it was: the passing of responsibility for her personal safety from herself to Aoife. That scared her almost as much as Uaithne had.

The king would never let Hild go, not now. Not until she was dead or of no more use.

To not being nine years old and at the mercy of the world.