Quotes About Dependency

Like the utensils that are too long to get food and return it to our own mouths—we got married because we couldn't meet our own needs. We needed a partner to serve us and to fulfill us.

The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.

She knew she needed Lynn, so she wouldn't get angry at her. Jo's parents had taught her long ago that it was not safe to get angry at someone she depended on. (53)

Becca Jones might be my property in the eyes of the club, but the reality was that she owned me and there wasn't a damned thing I could do about it.

An unspoken rivalry threaded their relationship, in which Tiger Lily thought that if she could keep up with him, she could hold tighter to him. It didn't occur to her there was anything in which Peter would want her to fail. But sometimes, I could see that, even for him, she was too fast, too sure-footed, and didn't seem to need him quite enough.

She needed a backup to her mother, who

He never would have reached this point, the middle, without her.

Prawie wszystkie ludzkie nieszcz??cia bior? si? st?d, ?e cz?owiek chce mie? drugiego na w?asno?? i na zawsze.

A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you're high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.

Arendt's "totalitarian personality," the "completely isolated human being who, without any other social ties to family, friends, comrades, or even mere acquaintances, derives his sense of having a place in the world only from his belonging to a movement, his membership in the party.

The mentality of a refugee, forcibly expelled from his home, is not that of an emigrant who leaves to seek his fortune: his very circumstances fostered dependency and a sense of helplessness he might never have known before. To

Your separateness could kill you unless I take it from you as a sickness.

says addicts are rendered comatose for the first two weeks, pumped full of sedatives to keep them quiet while they undergo detox,

I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. JOHN 15:5 NLT

Need is not quite belief.

I feel myself beginning to love you instead of just need you. I don't think I have ever loved anyone in my life, not really – just needed them, wanted them to love me to possess me – to become such a part of someone I could lose my frightened self…

Ils se sentaient toutefois le droit de faire la leçon aux imprévoyants ou de menacer l'enfant que sa mère envoyait exprès aux courses à sa place en fin de semaine, sans argent : « Dis à ta mère qu'elle tâche de me payer, sinon je ne la servirai plus. » Ils ne sont plus ici du bord le plus humilié.

Les filles comme moi gâchaient la journée des médecins. Sans argent et sans relations -- sinon elles ne seraient pas venue échouer à l'aveuglette chez eux --, elles les obligeaient à se rappeler la loi quoi pouvait les envoyer en prison et leur interdire d'exercer pour toujours.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

I'm a proper mummy's boy.