Quotes About Dependents

#1. Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish.

Andrew Saul

#2. American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

James Bovard

#3. great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

Charles Dickens

#4. Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.

Thomas Szasz

#5. I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

Orson Welles

#6. Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends.

Tucker Elliot

#7. In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. While bachelors are lonely people, I'm convinced that married men are lonely people with dependents.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#9. The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

James Bovard

#10. Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.

Conan O'Brien

#11. The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression.

Margaret Sanger

#12. There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

Preston Manning

#13. If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

Robert Chambers

#14. one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.

Jim Lewis

#15. I have 13 dependents. All of them have 140 IQ or better, except me. I'm under 100 IQ, and I support them all.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#16. Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq

Conan O'Brien

#17. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Enoch Powell

#18. Can the mere convenience that makes money such a useful device continue indefinitely to outweigh the horrendous and growing burden of evil that it imposes on the human race and ultimately brings its dependents to ruin?

Hugh Nibley

#19. My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

Robert Breault

#20. The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'

Stephen Kinzer

#21. I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.

Ian McKeever

#22. A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Henry A. Kissinger

#23. One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Xenocrates

#24. I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

Marge Piercy

#25. Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Michael Bloomberg

#26. He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Charles Kingsley

#27. The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#28. The world's greatest fool may say the sun is shining, but that doesn't make it dark out.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#29. The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

George W. Bush

#30. The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone who in themselves are lies and liars.

Walter Mosley

#31. When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

David Morse

#32. Fooles give to please all but their owne.

George Herbert

#33. I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

Karl Lagerfeld