Quotes About Dependency

I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.

All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.

Instead of expressing deep hurt, the wounded female lives a miserable existence and gripes and complains about everything. She becomes addicted to her misery because it allows her to forget about her anger, or at least postpone dealing with it. Her dependency on misery is just as difficult to break as someone else's dependency on crack cocaine. Both are means to a different reality that allows for pain to be deferred.

Gratitude is equally underrated and under-practiced. It too requires humility to say "thank you." Saying "thank you" means one is dependent on the other, that one needs the other.

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

Convenience is the gateway drug to entitlement. It drains people of their empathy, because it fosters the illusion that they can proceed through life without hardship. This makes it harder for them to imagine others who are facing hardship.

Discovering a biblical self-image in Christ increases your dependency upon Him and decreases an unhealthy dependency upon one another. I

There is no such thing as a carefree childhood, only a childhood that shifts the burden of care onto someone else. [Mom] is that someone else.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to the advantage of the corporations eager to step forward and do all this work for us. One

It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to the advantage of the corporations eager to step forward and do all this work for us.

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well—everything from the toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your eye by the checkout: corn.

Daily, caffeine proposes itself as the optimal solution to the problem caffeine creates. How brilliant!