Quotes About Dependency

What destroyed the Indian was not primarily political greed, land hunger, or military power, not the white man's germs or the white man's rum. What destroyed him was the manufactured products of a culture, iron and steel, guns, needles, woolen cloth, things that once possessed could not be done without."19

I remained a child, in need of someone to care for me. That person had been my mother all my life. I feared losing her. I feared not having her near me, not having her around, a part of my life

His conscience never bothered him, because when he failed, he would go straight to the Lord, saying, This is what I'll always naturally do if I'm left on my own, Lord. If he didn't stumble, though, he would always give God the credit.

Lamentablemente, lo que se lleva en las relaciones es tener el control. Y cuando hay control, no hay amor. Durante siglos, hombres y mujeres en realidad no se han amado. Se han manipulado los unos a los otros. Cada sexo ha hecho sentir al otro que el amor debía ganárselo.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Living a life without prayer is like building a house without nails. - Unknown

One for the wheelchair, and one for the tank; one for insurance, and one for the bank; one lived in the TV, bitching and whining; one slept in the hall light, constantly shining.

A lot of times when I think I'm being self-sufficient, I'm really just learning to live without the things that I need.

Maybe that's what children were, a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn't want it.

She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.

I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

He's going to hurt you, Al said, looking at Pierce. I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me. I shivered. I don't want him, I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.

Edden called the church first," she said by way of greeting, her thin eyebrows high as she spotted Ford's arm linked in mine. "Hi, Ford." The man reddened at the lilt she'd put in her last words, but I wouldn't let him take his arm back. I liked being needed. "He's having trouble with the background emotion," I said. "And he'd rather be abused by yours?" Nice. (Ivy, Rachel and Ford)

bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.

as Serena thought back on their overall relationship, she couldn't deny how obsessive and protective he had been when it came to his smartphone.

The picture is perfectly clear: the entire economy is fueled not by profit, not by production, but by debt. Debt, moreover, that no one is working on paying back and that everyone needs to believe—this is the pipe dream that sustains the whole charade—will certainly be paid by future generations.

I remembered her father, the old man from another world, the man with mittens, who had to be spoon-fed on porridge because he was ninety, who smelled like an unburied corpse.

Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.

Being in love makes you a perfect slave, I think. And it would give a man such power to hurt you

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Whoever needs the relationship less has all the power.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.