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Quotes About Dependency

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.
~ Brion James
People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
~ Bobby Jindal
I believe that the future of humans, and the future of Earth, depends on space exploration. That's not a French problem, or a problem for Alabama: it's a planet-wide problem. International cooperation is crucial.
~ John M. Grunsfeld
Can't Live with you and I Cannot Live without you
~ Yasswant
The discoveries of my life that were of greatest significance (1) When I discovered love, (2) When I discovered faith and (3) When I discovered one cannot be without the other.
~ Tonny K. Brown
Do we really need each other, or are we just covering up each other's loneliness?
~ Vatsal Surti, On Love
When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they're taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won't affect your life, it does.
~ E.L. Montes, Perfectly Damaged
Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.
~ Kresley Cole, Lothaire
Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no gas stations.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.
~ Sam Shepard, Fool for Love
When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.
~ Steve Maraboli
The pain for her and the love for her was so entwined that neither would function without the other.
~ Ivy McClelland (me!)
She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!Then SHewent and left him restlessly numb. He was herpainkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.
~ Douglas Self
Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed him at night, bathe him, and put him to bed. Still, can any of us imagine a childhood without it?
~ Andrew Bridge, Hope's Boy
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is no secret that large corporations prefer people with families; those with downside risk are easier to own, particularly when they are choking under a large mortgage.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best slave is someone who is overpaid and he knows it
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
users of these machines gain no strength beyond an initial phase.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
causing it to become heavily indebted, mostly to the United States.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
we are led to the excessive use of specific products. This concentration is harmful.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb