Quotes About Reliance

You're going to be okay,' I say. 'You know,' he says, hanging on to me, 'that ought to be reassuring. But when mortals say it, it doesn't mean the same thing as when the Folk do, does it? For you, it's an appeal. A kind of hopeful magic. You say I will be well because you fear I won't be.

She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

Relying only on yourself is a good way to get got. Next time, take a member of the royal guard. Take one of us. Take a cloud of sprites or a drunken spriggan. Just take someone.' 'Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it,' I remind him.

She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall.

Taking refuge means, "I trust you. Please give me the medicine and I will take it.

on who the friend turns out to be and…well, the whole thing drives me to total distraction and anxiety.

It's easy to get rid of people, Christophe. All you have to do is rely on them.

There is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

It's one thing to believe God can do something. It's quite another to put yourself in a position of reliant trust. This is the distinction between intellectual belief and wholehearted faith.

God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.

If you are caught up in situations beyond your control, the solution is not figuring out how God can save you; it's trusting that he will.

We were created to be continually dependent on God, yet we often strive for our independence.

When you rely on God, his resurrection power will guide you out of hopelessness and into a hope-filled future.

zone of twilight" in which "the president acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority." He then "can only rely upon his own independent powers," and whether that reliance is legitimate "is likely to depend on the imperatives of events and contemporary imponderables rather than on abstract theories of law.

I'm only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I'll be gone forever—- the way the door closes behind me with such solidity, the way my suitcase carries everything I'd need for an eternity of traveling light. I've left my hotel number on your desk, instructions about the dog and heating dinner. But like the weather front they warn is on its way with its switchblades of wind and ice, our lives have minds of their own.

When my father didn't have my hand . . . he had my back.

You ask for a savior, and you become their slave.

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

Money is worth what people feel it's worth. . . . Without millions of individual citizens believing in a currency, money is colored paper.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Can't you just tell me now?" "No, I need someone to eat with." A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option?" "No. But you're my favorite option.

I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.