Quotes About Dependency

Later, when I was a new mother, I recognized her somewhat awestruck fascination with me. When you are fully immersed in the daily care and quirks and habits of a small, dependent child, an older kid who is articulate, civilized, and capable of moving around in the world without getting itself killed can seem as supernatural as a wizard.

I care only for the people who are useful to me—and only so long as they are useful," he said on St. Helena.

All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.

lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny.

I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others') dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001 Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

After a moment, Quentin asked, How long had it been since you'd been completely off medications? Diana didn't really want to tell him, but finally said, The first medications were prescribed when I was eleven. From that point on, there was always something, usually more than one drug at a time. But always something. I'm thirty-three now. You do the math. More than twenty years. You've spent two-thirds of your life drugged. Just about into oblivion, she agreed.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

the more tightly we are bound to one another, the more fearful he becomes, that fear manifesting in an anger and a jealousy that has begun to frighten me.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if………………………………… you can prove you don't need it.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.