Quotes About Dependency

Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult world, either. After my diagnosis, I moved back into my childhood bedroom. And as I get sicker, I increasingly rely on my parents to take care of me.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.

The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are.

Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

I'm so bad with money, I had to hand all my cards over to my husband. It doesn't comprehend in my brain.

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately.

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.

They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

Do we not owe the Growth of Wine To the dry shabby crooked Vine?

U godinama nakon toga shvatit ?u da osoba koja ima kontrolu u vezi ovisi o slabom partneru, a ipak ta tobožnja slaba osoba procvate kad oti?e, dok je ona, navodno ja?a, manje sposobna sama se iznijeti. Ako snagu crpiš pod?injavanjem druge osobe, onda si ti slab i ovisan.

Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat