Quotes About Dependency

In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.

Am I the reason you breathe Or am I the reason you cry?

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.

water is to the land what blood is to the body.

nourishing and sustaining. He feels entitled to the best others can offer without

I crave broken men. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together? I am tired. I want someone to save me - build an intricate web and place it beneath me in case I fall.

How the hell did I get myself involved with this broad? It's like I'm Lassie, she's Timmy, and every day is a new well.

maybe you are only a drop in a bucket—or a teaspoon in a desert—but there are some fragile plants that will die if your teaspoon goes away.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

special relationship is a relationship based on fear.

What bothered her was not that the tasks that had to be done were exerting. It was not even that they were tedious. It was that she felt that the three others lived their lives and she went around after them cleaning up their mess. She was an unpaid servant, expected to do a superlative job. In return, she was permitted to call this house hers. But so did they.

Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.

La civilización nace con la necesidad del ser humano de recurrir a los otros para satisfacer sus necesidades

He needed me because he wanted to cling to God now. God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor." He

I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain that no greatness could ever come from that. That's what I thought until I met you.

We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious—to machines.