Quotes About Dependence

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?

But this could not be the case with-the idea of a nature more perfect than myself; for to receive it from nothing was a thing manifestly impossible; and, because it is not less repugnant that the more perfect should be an effect of, and dependence on the less perfect, than that something should proceed from nothing, it was equally impossible that I could hold it from myself:

I'm afraid," she confessed, her voice quiet. "Of what?" "That if the box is opened I might want and want and never be filled." She took a breath. "That you will get tired of filling it." She paused and spoke her deepest fear, turning to his ear. "That you will use me and throw me away.

Every time, every woman, every circumstance; the answer is Him.

They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you did it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it.

He's disgusted and suspicious. They had Gebert down there, slapping him around and squealing and yelling at him. If you're so sure violence is inferior technique, you should have seen that exhibition; it was wonderful. They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you had done it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it. But

Telephone calls were to be handled by me, since he knew nothing that I didn't know. (This jarred my aplomb, since it was the first time he had ever admitted it.)

He'll listen to me because he has to, or fire me, and he can't fire me because then he would never do any work at all and would eventually starve to death.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." Albert Einstein (1879–1955) NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING PHYSICIST

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

Dios existió a la 1:50 a.m., en fin, para darle las gracias por ella, para sospechar que nunca un esposo quiso tanto a su esposa, para susurrar que es mejor que la gente no lo sepa, pues nadie dormiría tranquilo si lo supiera, pero la verdad es que el mundo depende de que ella siga bien.

They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

In the name of love, we give our kids ? indulgence rather than consequences; ? instant rather than delayed gratification; ? laxness rather than discipline; ? dependence rather than independence; ? and entitlement rather than responsibility.

Realize your full dependence upon the Lord and your need to align your life with His teachings. There is really no other way to get lasting healing and peace.