Dependency Issue Quotes

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

Above all, I had to fight for the image of the Kingdom, which meant standing up to the Americans to save our country from appearing an American dependency.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

I have an addiction to caffeine.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

I don't need a driver's license, my Uber driver needs a driver's license.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pocket when he has holes in his pockets.

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.

It seems paradoxical that a region so dependant on the Federal government decried government influence.