Quotes About Dependency

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Mammals: a family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Three trips to rehab," John said at last. "The third time…." He closed his eyes and blocked it out. He couldn't do this, not now. "It was bad. I thought maybe I was the problem, right? 'Cause… 'cause I'd do anything for him. Anything. I'da stayed for another trip to rehab—I'da stayed for all

the trips to rehab—but… but if I left, maybe he'd find a way without me. Because staying wasn't doing him any good.

the thing about Steven is, everyone wants him to fill the hole we have in our lives.

The twentieth century contributed skyscrapers and typewriters and automobiles and telephones to the world. Solid, workable objects. Every innovation of the twenty-first century could be erased by a power failure.

The market is not too old for the government to be a crutch .

Borrowing can be addictive, especially if the borrower benefits from guarantees.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Morphine is like a religious zealot on a mission; it searches for body parts to convert, offering milk-and-honeyed dreams to flow sluggishly through your veins.

I try to take breaks from makeup on the weekends. I try to not to wear any on Fridays and Saturdays. It's good to let your skin breathe and it's good not to depend on makeup, to feel comfortable in our skin.

If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard of living: from being able to get to work, meet friends in the pub, get the weekly shop or take the kids on a day out.

I can't live without my milk. We get 3 gallons every time we go shopping, and I finish it in two weeks. I drink maybe five cups a day.

When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can't travel or sleep without it. And it's, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn't do anything, but it's weird: if I don't have it, I'm constantly thinking about not having it.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

We don't need subsidized corporate welfare schemes that rely on endless bailouts from the taxpayer.

Our failed population-centric approach to Afghanistan has only led to missed opportunities, which is why Afghanistan depends on donors for 90% of government revenues. A smarter, trade-centric approach will boost Afghanistan's long-run viability by weaning it off donor welfare dependency.

Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.