Quotes About Dependency

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

Our families are often the thing that keep us stuck

You kids come to work and think you deserve to get paid, even though you don't work. You live on your phones, you live off your parents, while the rest of us make life easy for you by paying you to sit on your asses connected to the Internet." He

You don't realize how small your world is when you are a child. Your parents are your east and west, your sun and moon.

In Albert Einstein's words, "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

I suddenly wondered if he thought that I was powerless, and then I realized that I was powerless.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

No one really needs me," he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice..."I do," I say. "I need you." He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

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 I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

They were both after all, still children whose lives were dictated by powers above them.

How is he?" "He's a royal pain, frankly. He eats three times as much as the rest of us, yet he can't seem to get the knack of hunting. If we don't feed him he whines. So, of course, we do feed him and then he grows another six inches and whines louder.

I do," I say. "I need you." He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin

Because I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstances are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life, I would never be happy again. It's different for you. I'm not saying it wouldn't be hard. But there are other people who'd make your life worth living.

believe me when I say that if it released its grip on the districts for even a short time, the entire system would collapse.

I'm getting the white liquor because a few weeks ago he ran out and there was none for sale and he had a withdrawal, shaking and screaming at terrifying things only he could see.

It was pathetic, but he needed every drop of approval he could get.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?

Debe de ser un sistema muy frágil, si un puñado de bayas puede hacer que se derrumbe

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

The idea is, when a man receives a gift from another, his heart becomes impure, he becomes low, he loses his independence, he becomes bound and attached.

The mind of the man who receives gifts is acted on by the mind of the giver, so the receiver is likely to become degenerated. Receiving gifts is prone to destroy the independence of the mind, and make us slavish. Therefore, receive no gifts.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.