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Quotes About Dependency

it is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature; God gains nothing from us. "If
~ Arthur W. Pink
A world, in which we wouldn't expect anything from others, would be a hell.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
La parte triste acerca de mí es que me siento feliz cuando me necesitan.
~ Ashika Sakura
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
~ B.F. Skinner
Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
~ Patricia Heaton
In general, people are administered drugs too readily.
~ John McEnroe
Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Google is one of these products that I think is incredibly habit-forming, and it's the kind of product that shows this characteristic of something that we use with little or no conscious thought.
~ Nir Eyal
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.
~ Limmy
It's hard to break a habit.
~ Latto
I don't know where my phone is half the time.
~ Laura Lippman
Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.
~ Garth Nix
God often shuts us in so that we have no choice but to love. — Ann Varnum —
~ Gary Chapman
The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true.
~ Gary Shteyngart
The most painful thing about the woman whose mother did not want her was not her mothers lack of love, but that in seeing herself the way her mother saw her, she cut herself off from her own love. We believe that because being wanted and being seen and being loved once depended on someone else, they still do.
~ Geneen Roth
Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion. You become unhinged, dependent on whether things are going well that day or not.
~ Geneen Roth
Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it.
~ Geoff Dyer
We are so dependent on luck, good and bad. I think of those men and women—cases faintly parallel to mine—who live in one room and eat poorly and lie in bed, since their incomes are too small for any marked activity. Their lives would be unbearable were it not for their hopes of good luck and fears of bad. They have, in fact, little of either; but illusion magnifies what there is.
~ Geoffrey Household
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
~ George Berkeley
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Liza. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence. Higgins. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~ George Bernard Shaw
College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
~ George Eliot
It is just that I don't know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.
~ George Eliot