Quotes About Dependency

That's the problem with people, Kanan said. They never need help on your schedule - only theirs.

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again -- my Life seems to stop there -- I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving -- I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.

Canned food is a perversion, Ignatius said. I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

My aid alone had never seemed to him in the category of help. The reason for this occurred to me as the procession moved slowly across the brilliant foyer to the doors; Phineas had thought of me as an extension of himself.

It's here, I think, that science, history, and art have something in common: they all depend on metaphor, on the recognition of patterns, on the realization that something is like something else.

We think people can spend 35–40 years working and saving, then stop working and go on for another 20–30–40 years at the same comfort level – but with a growing percentage of retirees and a shrinking number of workers paying into the system. I'm sorry, but that's magical thinking.

They cannot operate efficiently in a vacuum.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

There are some people who come in your life pretending that they love you only because they need you.

Some people are like a drug. They make you feel good but they also give you side effects like heartbreak, watery eyes, and stress.

When we are truly in love with someone. It will be way too hard for us too even imagine our life without that person.

I never meant to fall in love with you but I did, I don't have to miss you, but I do and I don't need to be with you but I can't be without you.

Most of the people are only in our lives for THEIR benefit, as soon as your role is done, they move on to someone else like it's nothing.

When you're always there for people they stop appreciating you because your FAVORS are now an EXPECTATION.

People don't understand the things you do for them until you stop doing it...

We are like dominoes. I fall for you & you fall for another.

I don't know what I'd do without you, I don't know where I'd be, you're not just another boy, you're everything to me.