Quotes About Dependency

Every man is betrayed by his mother.

They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can appreciate what ah feel, what ah need. Protect me from those who wish tae help us.

Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.

Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye found a dealer whae didnae use. We called Johnny 'Mother Superior' because ay the length ay time he'd hud his habit.

Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincero, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.

Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?

Algunos pobres cabrones simplemente están mucho más predispuestos hacia la adicción a ciertas drogas que otros.

Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincro, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.

Once ye accept that they huv that right, ye'll join them in the search fir this holy grail, this thing that makes ye tick. Ye'll then defer tae them, allowin yersel tae be conned intae believin any biscuit-ersed theory ay behaviour they choose tae attach tae ye. Then yir theirs, no yir ain; the dependency shifts from the drug to them.

But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.

To Baley, it seemed not that the Aurorans were growing more humane in their attitude out of a liking for the humane, but that they were denying the robotic nature of the objects in order to remove the discomfort of having to recognize the fact that the human beings were dependent upon objects of artificial intelligence.

Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.

Sa nu-ti treaca cumva prin cap sa mori si sa ma lasi infinit de orfana.

La caridad, igual que su socialismo, es un invento de los débiles para doblegar y utilizar a los fuertes.

All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.

Hay diferencia entre vejez y ancianidad. No es cosa de edad, sino de estado de salud física y mental —le explicó Cathy—. Los viejos pueden mantener su independencia, pero los ancianos necesitan asistencia y vigilancia hasta que llega un momento en que son como niños.»

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.