Quotes About Dependency

However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further increases the feeling of dependency.

Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won't be as enjoyable, and/or that you'll be less able to cope with stress.

What you really enjoy in an alcoholic drink is not the drink itself, but the ending of the irritation of wanting that drink. Non-drinkers enjoy that all the time.

Because of diagnostic inflation, an excessive proportion of people have come to rely on antidepressants, antipsychotics, antiaxiety agents, sleeping pills, and pain meds.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

À ce que je continue à vivre, dit Pannonique que ce genre de tautologie amusait. —Mais à quoi cela me sert-il ? —Je viens de vous le dire : à ce que je continue à vivre. —Ça ne me sert à rien. —Si. La preuve, c'est que vous êtes horrifiée à l'idée de ma mort. Vous avez besoin que je vive.—Pourquoi ? —Parce que vous m'aimez.

We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn't advocate it any other way.

New cell phones are my weakness.

My greatest weakness is... my dog.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.