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Letter "D" » dependence
«It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
alliances, dependence, go around, mutually, partners, supportive
«Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.»
Author: Greg Anderson
(Author)
| Keywords:
dependence, independence, interdependence, interdependent, staunch, term
«Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
aged, dependence, excitement, excitements, habituation, label, middle-aged, mutual, sexual, sexual love, with excitement
«All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Appreciation,
People
| Keywords:
appreciation, charming, conceal, dependence
«In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
Dependence,
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, commander, dependence, divine guidance, guidance, perspective
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.»
«Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
begets, begot, dependence, designs, fit, germ, germs, prepares, subservience, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, The Germ, tools, venality
«Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| About:
Team work
| Keywords:
dependence, derived, oneness, team, unity
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