Quotes About Dependency

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

We're very needy people, you know.

It's hard to ignore the hand that feeds you, and today our communities are far more needy than they've ever been, and governments neither have the will nor the ability in many cases to provide the services that they need to.

I'm needy, I need approval in everything I do.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.

I still can't get used to a smartphone. There's something I really dislike about it, but for a new generation, life without smartphones never existed.

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

She wasn't a fantasy anymore, but something real, something he couldn't imagine living without

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all.

I should warn, you, Duncan: I'm not going to fight for you. The whole point of you is that you're not the sort of person anyone fights over. You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.

multicellular life. All animals, all plants, all of them depend on

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.

Now, you can say, "they rent themselves freely, it's a free contract"—but that's a joke. If your choice is, "do what I tell you or starve," that's not a choice—it's in fact what was commonly referred to as wage slavery in more civilized times, like the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example.

He cut you off from your family, your friends. He whittled your world right down, didn't he, and hammered at you to be grateful for it." He had, of course he had. She hadn't seen it happening because it was so gradual—until it was just her life.

Modern people worry about smartphone addiction, despite the fact that landlines exercised much more control over the owner.