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Quotes About Reliance

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Let me be your anchor. I'll never let you be lost again.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She waited, thinking you were different from those who used and betrayed her. She believed you would find her, come charging to her rescue. That belief was as misplaced as the monsters we faced were deadly. The day came she finally lost her faith in you, and I was there as I've always been there when she needed me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Why do they always ask for words? Why do they ever believe them?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Qué es la confianza, sidhe-seer, sino la expectativa de que otro se comporte de un modo determinado, basada en acciones previas?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters
~ Karen Marie Moning
A strong breeze pushed at the martin houses strung from the old oak tree below. Watching them, Ceecee remembered the story Margaret had told her long ago, about how the small birds relied on others to make their homes for them. It made sense to her now, knowing that so much of life was reliant on things outside of oneself, how the whims of others dictated people's hearts and lives. How dreams and wishes were just so much dust when held against the will of another human being.
~ Karen White
A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust, Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
In this life, all we have is our savior and the honest word.
~ Kate Manning
Your only mistake then was in trusting the people who brought you here." I will hear this remark for the rest of my life: it will echo along the walls of my mind until all sound stops for me.
~ Kate Millett
We must not get caught up in an emotional reaction against such phrases as 'believing on authority' ... Everything depends on the character of the authority and the character of believing.
~ G C Berkouwer
"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~ G. B. Shaw
Faith is decisively determined by the object of faith, namely, God and His Word. This does not ... imply that Scripture ... derives its authority from the believer's faith: this idea is already rendered untenable by the very nature of faith, which rests on and trusts in the Word of God.
~ G.C. Berkouwer
Most importantly, remember that there are no guarantees in a gunfight, particularly when it comes to stopping power.
~ Gabriel Suarez
Why do you keep coming?" she asked. "Because," he said. Click on this word , he thought, and you will find links to everything it means. Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me. Because I might have died without you or ended up in a children's psychiatric hospital. Because I owe you. Because, selfishly, I see a future where we make fantastic games together, if you can manage to get out of bed . "Because," he repeated.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will Landsman
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In the end, the body betrayed everyone.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Rose, the moon is incredible. Everything down on Earth relies on it. Rats jump for it. Tides rush out from it. Humans kiss under it. Without it there'd be nothing down there worth the light. And that just happened by chance -trillions of odd against it- one bit of stardust meets another bit of dust.
~ Gareth Roberts
We look to our friends or family members or spouses to fulfill our wants. And there's something functionally dysfunctional about such a dependency.
~ Gary Smalley
Trust is a commodity that comes and goes, my dearest friend. Faith is eternal.
~ Gav Thorpe
Ginger is not distracted by the way things could be, used to be, or should be. She perceives only what is. Our reliance on the intuition of a dog is often a way to find permission to have an opinion we might otherwise be forced to call (God forbid) unsubstantiated.
~ Gavin de Becker
I encourage women to ask other women for help when they need it, and it's likewise safer to accept an offer from a woman than from a man. (Unfortunately, women rarely make such offers to other women, and I wish more would.) I
~ Gavin de Becker
However, we do not recommend relying too heavily on volatile variables for visibility; code that relies on volatile variables for visibility of arbitrary state is more fragile and harder to understand than code that uses locking.
~ Brian Goetz