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Quotes about Dependency

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.
- Frank Herbert
Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!
- Frank Peretti
No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.
- Lysa TerKeurst
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lost; for want of the battle the war was lost; for want of the war the kingdom was lost; and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
- Madeleine L'Engle
However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too.
- Andrew Murray
We want to wait on Him and put away our experiences, however blessed they have been; our concept of truth, however sound and scriptural we think it is; our plans, however needful and suitable they appear.
- Andrew Murray
My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
- John Barrymore
Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.
- John Calvin
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
- Ronald Reagan
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.
- Max Lucado
Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them.
- Rainbow Rowell
Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.
- Kay Arthur