Quotes About Dependence

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her

Idris thinks longingly of when they were small and helpless, so wholly dependent on him.

In time, they will grow up to be among the largest and most fearsome predators on Earth; now, they are vulnerable, largely defenseless, and insecure. Like any youngster taking its first steps in a frightening world, they want and need to stay close to their mother.

You need me, just whistle, he said as he arranged his ball cap over his eyes against the sun leaking through the frost-emptied branches. You're not coming? Lifting the brim of his cap, he eyed me, You want me to? he asked blandly. Not really, no. He dropped the brim and laced his hands over his middle. Then why are you bitching? It's a crime scene, not a grocery store.

I must trust my spacesuit not to fail. And i must remember, if i can, that really we are always in a spacesuit of one sort or another. We just don't usually see it so clearly.

Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.

This mountain of a man was learning that his considerable might- which he'd clearly relied on for everything - was futile with her.

Jack stopped at the entrance, cupping my face. Stick to me like a shadow, you. How many times had he told me that? I regenerate. I need to go first! Dafuq. You're goan to stay behind me and step where I step. Same for you, coo-yon. This ain't up for discussion!

Hey, hey, no disrespecting The Truck. She's gotten me out of a lot of scrapes.

He lowered his hand, grumbling, "My heart doesn't fucking work right without you." She seemed to soften at that, but then she asked, "Has anything really changed?" "I've learned I need to consult you in matters, lest you decapitate me.

Josephine voleva che Rune fosse la sua àncora? Che la tenesse per mano, legata a lui? Questo perlomeno sembrava realizzabile. In cambio lei avrebbe potuto assicurarsi che il suo cuore non si incenerisse di nuovo. Forse potremmo essere l'àncora l'uno dell'altra.

Their mastery of technology was their greatest strength. But their utter reliance on it was, ironically, their greatest weakness.

Dora is too good," said Anne. "She'd behave just as well if there wasn't a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn't need us; and I think," concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, "that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.

How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

You are my glue. Without you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces.

Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.

Can a wall describe its own dimensions and texture, can a wall even sense its own existence, if not for the ball that constantly bounces off of it?