Quotes About Dependency

It's love that enslaves us.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

Increasingly alarmed by the development of what President Eisenhower would someday call the "military-industrial complex," Oppenheimer had tried to use his celebrity status to question the scientific community's increasing dependency on the military. In 1954, he lost.

We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.

Well, you obviously don't love anyone very much if your love is contingent on them always staying the same.

Having her mother around had meant that there was someone in the world she didn't have to pay to take care of, much less love, her children.

Two individuals who need each other will only have conflict. They can never have a relationship.

Attachment gives birth to hope and need. If you are attached to them, you will need them to do certain things, achieve certain things, be a certain way, and behave toward you in a certain way. When they do not, it will cause you pain. When you experience pain, you will behave toward them in a way that pain compels you to behave. And they will behave toward you in a way that their need for freedom compels them to behave. And this will continue for the rest of your lives.

I hate cars and wish they had never been invented. I try to use them only when I absolutely have to.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

I can't live without my iPhone.

I have an iPhone, but that's just because I need to take pictures of my 5- and 8 1/2-year-old kids. It becomes quite easily an addiction for people who aren't even aware that they're addicted.

God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century.

I'm dating my iPhone.

I cannot live without my iPhone.

The iPhone rules, but it does everything but get a call, you know? I can't tell you how many times my wife has been madder at me because cell phone coverage dropped and she thought I hung up on her.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

To despoil oneself of all wealth in Jesus' name is a sign of faith in Divine Providence.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

A baby is born with a need to be loved–and never outgrows it.

Couples stay together when each of the two remains a necessity for the other. which you cannot know, until they cease to be.