Quotes About Dependency

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

Because being so dependent on people scares me.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around? What will be left of me then?

I see the look on her face that says nothing can happen to her if she's holding on to her dad. It kills me to hate them so much for having that.

Because who they were had always been determined by him

Pero ¿Qué ocurrirá con nosotros cuando tu no estés bien? Nos volveremos patéticos, incluso más de lo que soy yo ahora. Así que, ¿Por qué iba a querer yo que alguien lo sea todo para mi, si un día puede dejar de estar cerca? ¿Entonces qué quedara de mi?

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Sweet like syrup of ipecac, she leaves my system with my guts in her hands.

Você devia ser como esses passaritos que vivem nas costas do hipopótamo: ser precisado pelos grandes, mas não ser visto por ninguém.

Nor did I grasp the capacity of love's absence to destroy, that my lack of love for myself made my own life unbearable. You take someone whose life experiences have taught them they're worthless, string them out on drugs, and you have one miserable person. How could I have given what I didn't have? It's hard to value another life when you view your own as dispensable, hard to understand how you can have so great an effect on someone else when you don't think you matter.

neocolonization.

You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.

Seriously, it is easy to believe that sealed and final are a wrong-headed mistake, that they should never have been added to programming languages. But the real fault lies with us. When we depend directly on libraries that are out of our control, we are just asking for trouble.

He'd almost forgotten how much he loved the cigarettes, what a poisonous comfort they were.

Each tool reshapes the one who is apparently the master of the tool. I ask myself this: At what point does the tool, the servant, become the real master?

If we are honest, we must admit that our employers have power over us. Some of them may be nice and some of them may be nasty, but none of them will spend money just because it would be good for us. They know that as individuals we are less powerful than they. We have only our ability to work to sell, but they have the jobs.

When you look outside yourself for affirmation, you give extraordinary power to the affirmer. When people have extraordinary power, they tend to abuse it.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

Rogers's belief that a ruler's power, like King Friday's, is ultimately dependent upon complicity or cooperation from those he or she rules, and that when the governed begin to withdraw their cooperation, as Lady Aberlin and Daniel Striped Tiger did, the power of the ruling authority begins to crumble.