Quotes About Dependency

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

Electricity. The high priest of false security.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

she lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: "He doesn't make enough time for me. He isn't as romantic as he used to be.

The woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives—blindly.

There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.

We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.

This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are all cyborgs now.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

AIBO permits something different: attachment without responsibility.

We are shaped by our tools.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.