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Quotes About Reliance

With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.
~ Heber J. Grant
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
~ Nick Hornby
You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all.
~ Nick Hornby
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
~ Nick Hornby
i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
~ Nikki Giovanni
These young folks say they can't leave home without their American Express, but nowadays I can't leave home without my pistol. I ain't used it in a while but I've been itching to.
~ Nikki Turner
So someone can ask me what reflects my interpretation of the way things are, and I can tell them where they can get material that looks at the world the way I think it ought to be looked at-but then they have to decide whether or not that's accurate. Ultimately it's your own mind that has to be the arbiter: you've got to rely on your own common sense and intelligence, you can't rely on anyone else for the truth.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's also important here to distinguish between what's possible to know and understand firsthand from information that must be delivered second-, third-, fourth-hand by a various media; that is, mediated information, which is more and more the case. I mean, we know less and less about the world firsthand than we do through other sources of information.
~ Noam Chomsky
We all have stories like that, stories we rely on to establish our charm in the beginning of relationships.
~ Nora Ephron
He'd always believed in her. They'd believed in each other. He'd been her rock, in a very real way. The rock that had given her a solid base to build on after a childhood of upheaval and discontent. Then
~ Nora Roberts
hair." "Deal.
~ Nora Roberts
it, if you'll trust me." She laid her
~ Nora Roberts
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How can you possibly believe he really loves you?" Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier's hand."You have no choice," Mr. Whittier tells her. "If you need to be loved.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
For real?' Cassie's eyes glittered, and it occurred to me that all along she'd expected me to stop us. She'd goaded and teased me, made out like I was a wimp; but she also relied on me to keep us safe.
~ Claire Messud
Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.
~ Clive Barker
If Pitt tells you there's a Santa Claus, hang your stocking on the mantel, because you better believe it.
~ Clive Cussler
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.
~ Cody Lundin
En haec promissa fides est?
~ Virgil