Top 62 Depended Upon Quotes
#1. Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#2. They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.
John Calvin
#3. Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).
Pearl S. Buck
#4. If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Gene Tunney
#5. I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron
#6. Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.
Arlaina Tibensky
#7. I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#8. Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#9. We'd saved him as much by joining in his exultation as we had by witnessing his shame. And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.
Gregory David Roberts
#10. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
#11. The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
Barry Hughart
#12. Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.
Clement Greenberg
#13. Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
Ellen Glasgow
#14. The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
James R Newman
#15. I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
Bertrand Russell
#16. Let us fight as if it all depended upon us, but let us look up and know that all depends upon him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.
Henry George
#18. Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.
Robert Fanney
#19. Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.
Robert Ludlum
#20. Everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.
Anne Perry
#22. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
Brigham Young
#24. Lord Biddenden's instincts were patriarchal. He liked to see his brothers and sisters under his roof, and to feel that they depended upon him for guidance; and he was almost as anxious for their advancement as his own.
Georgette Heyer
#25. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Gerry Spence
#26. We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
Erica Jong
#27. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.
Leonard Gross
#29. Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.
Walt Mossberg
#30. Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior; (3) Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.
Erika Andersen
#31. The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
#32. When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it.
Bram Stoker
#33. The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.
Doris Grumbach
#34. The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#35. The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#36. So much of being able to hike the PCT depended upon mind control: the stout decision to move forward, regardless.
Cheryl Strayed
#37. The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
W. G. Grace
#38. Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Eugene Grace
#39. There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...
Harriet Martineau
#40. For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.
Margaret Atwood
#41. One principal reason is that the histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes. We have but few accounts that can be depended upon of the manners and customs of that part of mankind where these retrograde and progressive movements chiefly take place.
Thomas Robert Malthus
#42. No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.
H.L. Mencken
#43. There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#44. Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Spellman
#45. One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.
Joseph Addison
#46. Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.
David Brooks
#47. What Elzy had learned in the war was this: Sometimes your life depended upon having to do an awful thing, and the only way to make it through was to just do it and feel the sorrow later. - 'Elzy Taylor and the Men from the City by Jesse Knifley
Frank Larnerd
#48. But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
John Calvin
#49. As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.
Yoshida Shoin
#50. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
Abraham Lincoln
#51. Codependents appear to be depended upon, but they are dependent.
Melody Beattie
#52. We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
#53. The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and
Robert B. Parker
#54. Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
William Booth
#55. Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.
Dogen
#56. Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#57. The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
Anthony Trollope
#59. Don Jose Avellanos depended very much upon the devotion of his beloved Antonia. He accepted it in the benighted way of men, who, though made in God's image, are like stone idols without sense before the smoke of certain burnt offerings.
Joseph Conrad
#60. Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
Edmund Burke
#62. Upon reflection, I marvel that no one saw through me enough to bundle me off to the nearest mental institution. The fact that it didn't happen depended less on my being a good actress than the fact that I was surrounded, as I had been all my life, by strangers.
Maya Angelou
