Quotes About Reliance

How can I refuse an offer like that? We are all we have. And we are so small, and the night is so large.

I hate hanging our hopes on a man, even if he is both gentle and his mother's son. But he came.

You commit yourself completely to something and then you take your eyes off it for an instant and it's gone. Like it never was. Like you can't even see the evidence of the thing that was there, that you trusted your weight, your honor, your life, your heart to.

His poet would never disappoint him.

The most we can hope is to go on getting away with it till the others get it away from us

When you find one thing that depends on something else that, in turn depends on something else, the whole series of interactions depends on constancy.

how did she, Ellen Chesser, ever come to such a state of need that a person outside herself, some other being, not herself, some person free to go and come and risk accidents far from herself, should hold the very key to her life and breath in his hand?

God doesn't want us to rescue our children. He's the Rescuer.

Friends are the glue that keep us all here. Without them, who would drive you to school or skip class with you when you need to pick up a new pair of sneaks because you stepped in dog crap on the way onto campus? Boy or girl, underclassman or upperclassman, we all need our friends--just like the cheesy songs tell us.

I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.

He believed the instrument of its destruction would be the very thing that gave Victorian Europe its great sense of pride: its reliance on science.

And what is faith but the acceptance of heaven's gifts, or the trusting in the record wherein those gifts are promised.

But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1Co 10:13).

A world, in which we wouldn't expect anything from others, would be a hell.

She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

trust and believe

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings.

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.