Quotes About Dependence

You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

But when he's cut, I bleed.

Every breath you take from this moment on is by my mercy. Every bite of food you eat, by Harra's charity. By charity and mercy—such as you did not give—you shall live. Dead woman.

Sir. I could use a crutch." His knees gave way, but the captain was there, his arms going around the taller man's bony body, holding him to him as he shook with silent sobs. "I have you, son," he whispered. "I'll be your crutch.

In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them; and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do.

The more you love and trust him, the nearer you will feel to him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom.

and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes

In a little more than two years, they had suffered their father's disappearance and their mother's death, reducing them to orphans and throwing them upon the mercy of friends, family, and community.

If he showed generosity toward Frank, it deepened his brother's dependence and bred anger; if he didn't give him money, Frank threw a tantrum.

Eliza increased her dependence on John, as if training him to be everything Bill wasn't.

Gates humbly told him early on, "but I beg you not to place any confidence in me (I have little in myself)

The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

Ah, la vanidad del escritor... Podemos llegar a ser una auténtica peste. Quizá sea por nuestra especial dependencia de la mirada ajena, o porque la falta de criterios objetivos a la hora de juzgar una novela hace que siempre nos sintamos un poco inseguros, siempre un poco en el aire; pero lo cierto es que la vanidad es, para nosotros, como una droga dura, un chute de reconocimiento exterior que, como toda droga, nunca sacia la necesidad de aprobación que padecemos.

Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a régime. Genuine Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and don't much mind: this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

God and the world are not two things to be added together. Neither are they two things that are 'really' one thing. They exist in an asymmetrical relation in which one depends wholly on the other, yet is fully itself, made to be and to act according to its own logic and structure.

I can't,' but it was acceptance now. 'I can't,' whispered Dame Catherine, 'so You must.

If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong.

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.