Quotes About Dependence

The good Lord was the one who provided everything for me.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

I used to think if I didn't have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I'd drink purely to get drunk.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

As long as Putin backs me up, I can do everything - Allahu akbar!

There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.

I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.

I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

I felt like I had to be honest for the people who look after me.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord.

I get so frustrated when it takes longer than a couple of seconds to load a page - I couldn't live without the Internet now.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

I dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn't live without you. I was nearly dead.

All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.

Yes to it all. I had become a puppy that stands on its hind legs and barks when its master fetches its leash.

Stand firm in the Lord, Hadassah. Stand firm and let him fight your battles. Do not try to fight alone.

Our salvation depends on not who we are but on who He is

Why couldn't he trust that the Lord would do the same for her? Because he knew she didn't believe.

Angel lay in the darkness after Meribah left and worked over what she had said. Mama had worked to keep Alex Stafford's love alive. She had tried everything to please him and keep his passion alive. Angel wondered now if it hadn't been those very efforts that served to drive him away. Mama had been so hungry for his love. Her entire life had revolved around Alex Stafford's coming to the small cottage. Her happiness depended solely on him. It had been an obsession.