Quotes About Dependency

Romantic love continues the status quo in which we both are victimized and victimize each other.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

Here's an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?

he had had absolutely no cigarettes at all. Not one. They were out of his life, foresworn utterly. He didn't need them. He could do without them. They merely nagged at him like mad and made his life a living hell

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life. He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

The only thing worse for a woman than making herself dependent on a man—'" Nell finishes her sentence: "'—is to have a child dependent on her.

So what does one do if one's refuge is in another person? or in an institution? or in a way of thinking? or in family life? or in a political view? or in anything which is subject to change, to birth and death?

Technology dictates how people live their life, we become TechPally either knowingly or unknowingly. It does not matter whether we're for it or against it, it has ruled the world we live.

I think everything depends on money.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

In reality, we use our love to get the love we need.

THE LUXURIES WE indulge in eventually come to seem to be necessities, as if we could not live without them. —RABBI YISRAEL SALANTER (1810–1883)

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Both figuratively and literally, entitled people expect your signature on the front of the checks, and theirs on the back.

Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we ever decide to stop using it - that may be the number to which our own naturally gravitates.

When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an unending tide of gossip. This mainly concerned people her son had never heard of, nor, on the strength of their entire life histories, had any wish for further acquaintance.

Everything depends on everything else, doesn't it? That's interconnectivity for you – it's a bitch.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

I am an addictive personality.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.