Quotes About Dependency

We need to understand why in a society so dependent on technology, a society that benefits so richly from the results of engineering, a society that rewards engineers so well, engineering isn't perceived as a desirable profession.

A whole host of functions that were once performed without the Internet now can only be performed with the Internet. There is no fallback.

One of the great ironies of the modern age," he begins, "is that the advancements of mankind can make us more powerful and yet more vulnerable at the same time. The greater the power, the greater the vulnerability. You think, rightly so, that you are at the apex of your power, that you can do more things than ever before. But I see you at the peak of your vulnerability. "The reason is reliance. Our society has become completely reliant on technology.

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.

Angel, if I needed you more I couldn't function.

We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.

This—he gestured impatiently at himself—is just a fucking shell. You're what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You're my heart and soul. If something ever happened to you, it would kill me, too. Keeping you safe is goddamned self-preservation!

I was unsettled at the thought of going the entire weekend without him. Worse, I hated the thought of him spending that amount of time away from me. He had a world of choices and possibilities out there, women who weren't so screwed up and difficult to be with.

without him for any length of time made me feel sick. I had to swallow past a painful lump to ask

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells.

I need a father, I need a mother, I need some old, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Living with her was like living with my own coffin: Yet I still depended on her, though I did it regretfully.

I need a father, I need a mother, I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God but the sky is empty.

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Why speak of love? We were used to each other.

Recently, there has been considerable public concern about the fact that 47% of Americans pay no income tax; the presidential candidate Mitt Romney opined that these are people "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them. . . . These are people who pay no income tax.

Not such a compliment: she only wanted To have a tame daughter-in-law with very little money, A housekeeper-companion for her and Harry. Even when he married, she still held on to me

Without Karuil-Ysem, I should be less than I am.

My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.

Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go." "Exactly what am I taking away?" "My family." "Brenna..." She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?" "Me.

me atormenta tu amor que no me sirve de puente porque un puente no se sostiene de un solo lado...

Subordinating conjunctions relegate clauses to a lower grammatical status. Subordination means that what was a whole sentence is whole no more. It's a mere subordinate clause.

Motherfucker was like three hundred years old, but because he had a car and a record collection and foto albums from his Vietnam days and because he bought her clothes to replace the old shit she was wearing, Nilda was all lost on him.