Quotes About Dependency

Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spread centuries apart. The Chimp is shackled by its own stupidity, And you, well...

Whatever Richard wanted, Doreen secured for him. He was the boss in their relationship. She made sure Richard had money in his commissary account at the jail and sent him books and magazines, writing paper and stamps.

you can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

Most of the time he didn't even bother to look back at the boy struggling along behind him on his weary pony. He just tossed words over his shoulder and expected Ansel to catch them.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Fourth, character is dynamic in that it generates new strivings, new needs and problems. It is largely through the identification of these needs that diagnosis proceeds, as when the discovery of excessive dependency or aggressiveness suggests that the patient has a particular type of character-structure.

Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.

I am aware that the woman sits on the floor with me, and my head is in her lap, but I can't see her anymore. I only feel her bones beneath my bones, holding me up. I strain to see, even though I feel the sun on my skin, coming through the window.

Colonization" exists when the colonized has valuable natural resources that are used to enrich the colonizer, but not the colonized: when the colonized does the colonizer's work, but earns little of the colonizer's money; when the colonized try to imitate or please the colonizer, and truly believe that the colonizer is, by nature, superior/inferior, and that the colonized cannot exist without her colonizer.

Io non ho il coraggio di alzare gli occhi e capisco che veramente sono peggio dell'edera, dove m'attacco muoio e forse c'ha ragione lui che non faccio altro che scaricargli addosso tutte le mie paranoie, cioè dire sempre, fai te che per me è lo stesso.

L'amour ne me disait plus rien du tout, mais rien du tout. L'amour pas plus que le vin, seul le tabac demeurait la saveur nécessaire de la vie ; Dieu merci, j'en étais bien pourvu.

Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing.

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel awful.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general feeling that if we were to break away it would be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off another one?

For the lakhs living along its banks, the Aghanashini has given people life and livelihoods.

Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think.

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.