Top 100 Quotes About Depended
#1. He'd said he was in love with her. And that just filled her up and emptied her out again. It made her want to shake, it made her want to weep. It made her want to hold onto him as if her life depended on it.
Nora Roberts
#2. 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
#3. Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.
Louise Doughty
#4. The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough
#5. 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
#6. We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
Ismail Merchant
#7. In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.
Vivien Alcock
#8. My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
#9. Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This
Frank Herbert
#10. People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby
#11. Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges;
but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether
the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner,
would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
#13. My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
Jane Fonda
#14. I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute.
A.S. King
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
Rachel Caine
#18. Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus MacGregors, including a six-wood that the Golden Bear himself couldn't hit if his life depended on it.
Carl Hiaasen
#19. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if it all depended on this particular up or down.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. What a terrible thing it was to wish to be known, to be seen, when one's life depended on remaining unnoticed.
Meredith Duran
#21. All this was as it should be, because welfare and happiness of the world depended on him, and wearied though he was he would still not refuse universe the assistence.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes
#23. If my love for Maara depended on her love for me, it was not love, but a bargain.
Catherine M. Wilson
#24. Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents
they were so upset and reproachful ... I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.
Philip Pullman
#25. The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it to keep us together. We did a lot of work to meet in the middle. Music brought us together. So now music was stuck with us.
Rob Sheffield
#27. I needed to believe that those on whom I depended for my orientations were more fixed and enduring that myself. So as to know where to return to. So as to continue existing.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#28. Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.
Matthew Henry
#29. I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!
Anna Kendrick
#31. In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
Tony Campolo
#32. My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Mark Warner
#33. If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos.
Sharon Green
#34. Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.
Robert Adams
#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. I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.
George Carlin
#37. What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.
Markus Wolf
#38. It took me one look to fall in love with her. One look to want to know everything and anything about her. One look to feel protective of her, like my life depended on it. One look to want to kill whoever gave her those scars.
Sarah Brianne
#39. If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?
Alex Rodriguez
#41. I'm sorry," he rasped, even as he knew what he was about to do. "My God. Sorry - " His mouth clamped over hers, and he began to kiss her as if his life depended on it.
Lisa Kleypas
#42. For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
Bear Grylls
#43. My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
Courtney Milan
#44. Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not.
Trudi Canavan
#45. Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.
Isaac Asimov
#46. Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.
Gloria Steinem
#47. The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.
Joseph Parker
#48. You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
Carlo Rubbia
#49. If his life depended on it, he
had to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last drop
of blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#50. Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.
Leon Bloy
#51. Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.
Elif Shafak
#52. South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#53. There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
Ken Bruen
#54. So much of being able to hike the PCT depended upon mind control: the stout decision to move forward, regardless.
Cheryl Strayed
#55. That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
Helen Keller
#57. Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.
Joe Hill
#58. Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.
John Bradshaw
#59. My life up until my illness could be understood as the linear sum of my choices. As in most modern narratives, a character's fate depended on human actions, his and others.
Paul Kalanithi
#60. Most of systems still depended on some central node to which everything had to be connected [ ... ]. I wanted the act of adding a link to be trivial. If i was, then a web of links could spread evenly across the globe.
Tim Berners-Lee
#61. The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...
all situational permutations of basic goodwill
depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to notice both what was happening around me and what was happening as my internal response. [p.50]
Sylvia Boorstein
#62. And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)
Kate DiCamillo
#63. Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
Ken Livingstone
#64. That was a good thing a bad thing or a thing that was neither good nor bad, but whatever it was, good, bad or neither , depended on your point of
Rick Yancey
#65. I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile.
Gregory David Roberts
#66. I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Barbara Kingsolver
#67. I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.
Ross McKitrick
#68. 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
#69. Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.
Sarah Parcak
#70. Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Eugene Grace
#71. 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
#72. Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to love her was, in fact, loving her, that the face of love depended on the person giving it?
Elizabeth Berg
#73. The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#74. I depended on you....You're older, you're supposed to be my...my archive. That's what sisters do, remember for each other.
Marthe Jocelyn
#75. And, as the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world. Everything depended on one word: "Maktub.
Paulo Coelho
#76. For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.
Margaret Atwood
#77. When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
Geoffrey Boycott
#78. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.
Cassandra Golds
#79. 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
#80. It had been a long time since he'd had a woman wrap her arms around his waist and hang on like her life depended on it. It felt nice. Very nice.
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After two months on her own, the touch of a man felt nice. Very nice.
Nicki Edwards
#81. belonged to the respectable class of society, but must have been poor; for he depended for support on a trade which he learned in accordance with rabbinical custom; it was the trade of tent-making, very common in Cilicia, and not profitable except in large cities.
Philip Schaff
#82. 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
#83. If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.-RVM
R.v.m.
#84. In LA she would hole up. Back in the day it had been part of his job to find people, and he had been pretty good at it. Success depended on
Lee Child
#85. Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.
Susan Griffin
#86. One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#87. Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
Stanley Hauerwas
#88. Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.
Chris Murray
#89. Yet if she returned home without trying every avenue, could she face her brothers? They depended on her. For once in her life, someone needed Shallan. That responsibility excited her. And terrified her.
Brandon Sanderson
#90. I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
Wallace Stegner
#91. the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability
Tom Clancy
#92. I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
Ezra Cornell
#93. Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and his very ability to identify so specific a trait made him proud of his own capacity for tenderness.
Richard Yates
#94. Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#95. It was irrelevant how much time you spent with Madiba. Your relationship with him depended on how you felt about him in you heart.
Zelda La Grange
#97. In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
Carol Loomis
#98. You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
Adrienne Rich
#99. He tunneled his dirty hands through her hair and kissed her breathless. Her neck, her eyes, the corners of her mouth. He kissed her lips as if his life depended on it. Kissed their future into her. All they could have and all they could be.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#100. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
