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Quotes About Dependency

At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
lovingly. "I enjoy being with you" was her preferred mode of expressing her affection. At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
A luxury once tasted becomes a necessity.
~ Alex Berenson
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.
~ Alexander Hamilton
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control.
~ Alfie Kohn
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
~ Jim DeMint
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
~ Italo Calvino
I recognized... very, very early on that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News were dependent on The Associated Press and Reuters. So my daily intake of information is from watching the newswires.
~ Andrew Breitbart
If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
~ John Niven
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
~ Wendell Berry
One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?
~ Geraldo Rivera
As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.
~ Edwin van der Sar
I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't need to use them indiscriminately. We are overusing it; we are misusing it.
~ Juhi Chawla
Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
~ Anthony Hopkins
You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.
~ Ronald Perelman
Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.
~ Robert Greene
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.
~ Michel Martelly
We've become a plastic society.
~ Bill Janklow
A Tamagotchi is a beep encased in a plastic shell. It exists to haunt you with ghostly notifications that signify nothing.
~ Sarah Jeong
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
~ Lou Holtz
I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.
~ Rachel Sklar
Having a cellphone in your pocket, you can get anything you want anytime you want it. Right then and there, boom, you have it.
~ Kyle Busch