Quotes About Reliance

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

" He is my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest."

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

We don't use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.

he sees, one cannot know enough to trust. To trust is simply to give oneself; the giving is for the future, for which there is no evidence.

Why, so can I, or so can any man; / But will they come when you do call for them?

It is not necessary to dig one's own grave. There are always others willing to dig it for you.' It's an old Cantonese proverb.

People naturally despise a dependant.

He could do so much for me if he just would. He could do everything for me.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency." "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

You could buy a burrito there, a lottery ticket, batteries, tests for various diseases. You could do voice-mail, e-mail, send faxes. It had occurred to Laney that this was probably the only store for miles that sold anything that anyone ever really needed; the others all sold things that he couldn't even imagine wanting.

So you see, Case, you need us. You need us as badly as you did when we scraped you up from the gutter.

Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society.

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it!

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't any of us have to be afraid anymore.

Tevekkül Allah'a! Köpe?in efendisi varsa kurdun da Tanr?'s? vard?r.

Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.

Well, that's because trust without honesty is blind trust, and blind trust is never wise.

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

We must take turns, don't you think? Every time one of us is buried like this, we shall dig the other out.