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Quotes About Dependency

Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Ella sólo pedía apoyarse en algo más sólido que el amor.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Elle ne demandait qu'à s'appuyer sur quelque chose plus solide que l'amour.
~ Gustave Flaubert
A pro? v?bec se chovat urážlivÄ› k nÄ›komu, na kom jsme úplnÄ› závislí? To by nebylo v?bec hrdinství, nýbrž jen nerozvážná smÄ›lost.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Con la massa degli oggetti cresce ... il regno degli enti estranei a cui l'uomo è soggiogato. E' lo stadio supremo di un'espansione che ha ritorto il bisogno contro la vita. Il bisogno di denaro è quindi l'unico bisogno prodotto dall'economia politica, e il solo che esso produca.
~ Guy Debord
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
~ H.L. Mencken
His drinking, of course, only aggravated what it was meant to alleviate.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Other folks bread is the most virulent form of poison that a free and independent man can take; other folk's bread is the only thing that can rob him of independence and the one true freedom.
~ Haldor Laxness
One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
~ Hanif Kureishi
In chili's hand were his car keys, Ray-bans and Marlboros, without which he wouldn't leave his bathroom. Chili drank only black coffee and neat Jack Daniel's; his suits were Boss, his underwear Calvin Klein, his actor Pacino. His barber shook his hand, his accountant took him to dinner, his drug dealer would come to him at all hours and accept his checks.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Right now, even though he'd been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father's big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?
~ Harlan Coben
I always assumed I'd find love like that. But now I don't want it. It isn't healthy. It makes you too dependent. You smile when they smile. You laugh when they laugh. But when they stop laughing, so do you. And when they die, a part of you dies too.
~ Harlan Coben
People with addictive personalities need an addiction.
~ Harlan Coben
God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.
~ Stephen Stills
I can't live without my PlayStation. When I go on tour this is like my best friend. 'Cause if I don't bring the PlayStation, I feel like I'm a slave of my work, basically.
~ Anuel AA
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
~ Paul Hawken
When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.
~ Monica Crowley
If the oil price goes down, Russia will go down. You can track the Ruble, you can track the stock market, just off the price of oil.
~ Bill Browder
We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
~ Arthur Lewis
Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
~ Philip Hammond
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
~ Rosamond Marshall