Abuse Dependence Quotes & Sayings

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. — Hesiod

If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird. — Ted Cruz

But he wishes the people really knew who they were mourning: the Isabel he had met on the jetty, so full of life and daring and mischief. His Izzy. His other half of the sky. — M.L. Stedman

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. — David Byrne

Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes. — Frances Hardinge

I might not have told you if I'd known why you were asking. — Katherine Rundell

There are kings on every other bush in Ireland. — Charles Brady

Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older than the parents. A parent often turns to the child for reassurance, nurturing, comfort, and protection and expects a loving response. — Benjamin James Sadock

It is only when we feel deprived that we resent giving to others. Self-care does not mean you stop caring about others; it just means you start caring more about you. Start thinking about yourself more and others less. Since you have a choice between taking care of someone else, or giving to yourself, try choosing yourself sometimes. — Beverly Engel

All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding their death. I am less worried about the abuse of these powers than I am about dependence on them. — Atul Gawande

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets. — Brian Cox

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it. — Thomas Shepard

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. — Albert Camus

Complicating matters, adolescent brains are more susceptible to substance abuse and dependence than adult brains, because they're making so many new synaptic connections and sloshing around with so much dopamine. Pretty much all quasi-vices to which human beings turn for relief and escape - drinking, drugs, video games, porn - have longer-lasting and more intense effects in teenagers. It makes acting out especially tempting to them, and it makes their habits especially hard to break. — Jennifer Senior

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. — Lord Acton

Have we even begun to be Christians? — Dorothy Day

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. — Tupac Shakur

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator. — Winston S. Churchill

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4. — John Ensign

This ain't my first rodeo!".

~R. Alan Woods [1999] — R. Alan Woods