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Quotes About Dependence

Don't trust in your own strength. None of us is strong in him or herself. It's the Lord who upholds us.
~ Francine Rivers
This is my God box," she said. "When problems prey on my mind, I write them down, fold them up, and put them through the slot. Once they're inside this box, they're God's problem and not mine.
~ Francine Rivers
Yes, but this God could give us anything and everything we want. Why does He withhold a feast from heaven and instead make us grovel on our knees every morning for one day's portion of manna?
~ Francine Rivers
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.
~ Frank Herbert
Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem
~ Frank Herbert
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." " 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind
~ Frank Herbert
Bir zamanlar, insanlar düÅŸünme iÅŸini makinelere devretmiÅŸ, böylece özgürleÅŸmeyi umut etmiÅŸlerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip baÅŸka insanlar?n onlar? köleleÅŸtirmesine yol açt? sadece.
~ Frank Herbert
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
~ Frank Herbert
And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.
~ Frank Herbert
Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.
~ Frank Herbert
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
~ Frank Herbert
Un tempo gli uomini dedicavano il proprio pensiero alle macchine, nella speranza che esse li avrebbero liberati. Ma questo consentì ad altri uomini di servirsi delle macchine per renderli schiavi.
~ Frank Herbert
The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.
~ Frank Herbert
Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.
~ Frank Herbert
Never travel alone
~ Frank Herbert
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking—there's the real danger. Look at how long you walked across this desert without thinking about your face mask.
~ Frank Herbert
It is said…." What a curious speech mannerism they have here. If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.
~ Frank Herbert
There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.
~ Frank McCourt
Within the triune God we discover mutual love, mutual fellowship, mutual dependence, mutual honor, mutual submission, mutual dwelling, and authentic community. In the Godhead there exists an eternal, complementary, and reciprocal interchange of divine life, divine love, and divine fellowship.
~ Frank Viola
Like a Dog!
~ Franz Kafka
And actually it is not you at all I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me
~ Franz Kafka
And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.
~ Franz Kafka
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love" - Letters to Milena
~ Franz Kafka
Als Gregor schon zur Hälfte aus dem Bette ragte – die neue Methode war mehr ein Spiel als eine Anstrengung, er brauchte immer nur ruckweise zu schaukeln – , fiel ihm ein, wie einfach alles wäre, wenn man ihm zu Hilfe käme.
~ Franz Kafka