Quotes About Dependence

The worst part of the potato blight was that it didn't go away. After the 1845 crops failed, people counted on the potatoes of 1846 to pull them through, but those potatoes rotted away, too. For some reason the crop of 1847 survived, but not enough fields of potatoes had been planted to produce enough food for everyone who needed it. And in 1848 the blight reappeared with a vengeance.

?nsanlara ne kadar çok muhtaç olursam onlardan kaçmak ihtiyac?m da o kadar art?yordu.

Bu ak?am anlad?m ki, bir insan di?er bir insana bazan hayata ba?land???ndan çok daha kuvvetli ba?larla sar?labilirmi?. Gene bu ak?am anlad?m ki, onu kaybettikten sonra, ben dünyada ancak kof bir ceviz tanesi gibi yuvarlan?p sürüklenebilirim.

Muazzez'de Yusuf'u hemen hemen ayn? hislerle sevmekteydi.Onun a?k?nda da esas amil, di?erinin "lüzumlu" bir ?ey olmas?,onsuz hayat?n tasavvur edilmesine bile imkan bulunmamas?yd?.

As long as you feed me, sir," Freddy said, "I'll follow you anywhere.

If you look at your prayers, ninety-five percent of the prayers in the world are all about either asking for something, fundamentally asking for protection

He who eats my bread does my will.

Shall I do it? I will; so the end of my action be to do good unto men. Doth anything by way of cross or adversity happen unto me? I accept it, with reference unto the Gods, and their providence; the fountain of all things, from which whatsoever comes to pass, doth hang and depend

As for my mind all things which are not within the verge of her own operation, are indifferent unto her, and for her own operations, those altogether depend of her.

You'd be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.

I forgave her, of course. I always did; I had to, because there were only the two of us. The two of us on our thorn-encircled island, waiting for rescue; and, on the mainland, everyone else.

That's what you get for being food.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

You'd be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man's notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

Stupid, stupid, stupid: I'd believed all that claptrap about life, liberty, democracy, and the rights of the individual I'd soaked up at law school. These were eternal verities and we would always defend them. I'd depended on that, as if on a magic charm.

He owes me, but that could prove a liability. Some people do not enjoy being indebted.

But how can she ever get out of it, her life, except through him?

It's wonderful to hear his voice, even if she can't depend on having any sort of a conversation with him. His interventions tend to be one-sided: if she answers him, he doesn't often answer back. But it was always more or less like that between them.

They were too careful around me, as if I was breakable. It was like I was a prize cat they were cat-sitting: you'd take your own cat for granted, you'd be casual about it, but someone else's cat would be another story because if you lost that cat you would feel guilty about it in a completely different way.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.

Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.

Why, she had never had to do a thing for herself in all her life. There had always been someone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her. It was incredible that she could be in such a fix. Not a friend, not a neighbor to help her. There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves. And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.