Quotes About Reliance

Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later.

She would rather see for herself; she doesn't trust Tobias to interpret; she suspects him of holding things back.

What I think doesn't matter. Which is the only reason he can tell me things.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

I didn't trust anyone but myself.

I've gotten endless signs of the greatness of God's love and hilarious care, but I always end up needing a newer sign, maybe one that is cuter and more spangly.

He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.

everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.

It is a terrible thing to realize that you depend so much upon another; that your entire sense of well-being is connected to that one—that you need him, love him, that he is the chief witness of your life.

Ultimately they will all disappoint you.

There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

We have to trust ourselves and then we have to trust the people we serve.

SO MUCH (INSPIRED BY MR. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS) BY JACK So much depends upon a black kitten dotted with white beside a photo of my yellow dog

Your life ain't much if you don't believe somebody got your back out here.