Top 100 Quotes About Depended
#1. 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
#2. If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
Niall Ferguson
#4. Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement.
[Giulia Lazzari]
W. Somerset Maugham
#5. If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. Buckminster Fuller
#6. I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.
Peter Falk
#8. Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.
Henry Kissinger
#9. I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
Jackie Cooper
#10. My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.
Augusten Burroughs
#11. 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
#12. Later, she would wonder if her feelings for a person depended on the way she perceived them. Where do feelings come from? she wondered. From a brief, variable impression? From a shifting point of view that's then replaced by an illusion that you project onto the other person?
Katherine Pancol
#13. Insanity depended on your point of view, he always said, and if it was the view through your own underpants then everything looked fine
Terry Pratchett
#14. I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.
Ryu Murakami
#15. I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken away from you, and so you value what you have. I had two very nice little boys, so sweet, and a very good husband.
Kimberly Quinn
#16. Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power
Blue Balliett
#17. We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi
#18. Do what you're trained to do and you might get out of this alive. Make the right decisions as if your life depended on them, because it does. Hesitate and you hesitate forever.
Craig Johnson
#19. I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
William Howard Taft
#21. If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.
Walt Disney
#22. I began to understand what bound Pearl to their simple mystery because i felt the same connection. in front of us, all around us, was the energy of life and growth. beauty was only a month away and it depended, in part, in what i could do.
Belinda Jeffrey
#23. Was memory like a river that slowed over time to a trickle? Or was it like a house with many rooms that became a house with fewer rooms and then finally just a single room you could never leave? Was that the worst fate in the world? It depended, Wyatt supposed, on what room you ended up in.
Lou Berney
#24. America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.
Stanley Hauerwas
#25. Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selflessness.
Margaret Atwood
#26. I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!
L.M. Montgomery
#27. Regin slapped her knees. "Oh, my gods, look at him running like his life depended on catching us." She slid open the door. "Is this straight outta Platoon, or what? Willem!" she cried, holding out one hand. "Run, Willem!" Then she choked on her laughter.
Kresley Cole
#28. Once we see that our salvation has never depended on anything we do, we have nothing to fear and nothing to prove. God in Christ has already provided every proof we need to be acquitted of every charge against us.
Dan Montgomery
#29. This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himself available.
Suki Kim
#30. I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.
Marc Jacobs
#31. 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
#32. I can touch his shoulder and console him, but comfort is fleeting; it means you depended on someone else to get you through.
P.T. Michelle
#33. Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
Casey Stengel
#35. I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes.
Russell Stamets
#36. The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents ...
Edward Gibbon
#37. He who saw that everything depended on himself alone, who decided the fortune of individuals and nations, was happiest when thinking of that day on which he would lay aside his own greatness.
Seneca.
#38. Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.
Monica Johnson
#39. In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for your pills? A hero.
Greg Gutfeld
#40. Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.
Hannah Arendt
#41. If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
Desmond Tutu
#42. If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
Bobby Jones
#43. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.
Anasazi Foundation
#44. Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
Kajol
#45. I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I learnt how it felt to starve. I chose cooking.
Akshay Kumar
#46. 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
#47. There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.
David Korten
#48. My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
Frank Serpico
#49. Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.
Siri Hustvedt
#50. Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#51. 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
#52. The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
Cofer Black
#53. The way the music was written seemed to be individualized, meaning that each person that listened to the music heard something different; it just depended on what they were going through in their own lives.
Jamie Magee
#54. I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
Rufus Sewell
#55. If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#56. I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.
Susan Butcher
#57. I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.
Deb Baker
#58. 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
#59. Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#60. You guys dated, didn't you?"
"Are you insane? Not even if the continuation of our kind depended on it would I be tempted to do something so awful.
Rachel Morgan
#61. Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely.
Richard Happer
#62. The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.
Mark Twain
#63. The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
#64. I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron
#65. 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
#66. You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
Jim Thompson
#67. I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#68. Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
Robert Hewison
#69. Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#70. For once in my life, I was going to get through a situation with a little dignity. OK, I probably wasn't, but I would fake it as if my life depended on it.
Molly Harper
#71. Did you really think that when I learned my celestial name, I'd leave? I'd forget all about you?"
"You did leave. You did forget all about me."
"That's different."
"The pain was just real."
He wrapped his arms around me and squeezed as though his life depended on it.
Darynda Jones
#72. The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.
Robert A. M. Stern
#73. Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
Lawrence Halprin
#74. He was, after all, like other high officials. I wondered why I thought he would be different. These men, who depended on the President's favour for everything, were bundles of nerves. The great power they excercised went with a constant fear of being destroyed.
V.S. Naipaul
#75. The fact that my house was Not Right metastasized into the notion that I myself was somehow Not Right, or that my survival in the world depended on my constant vigilance against various forms of Not-Rightness.
Mary Karr
#76. What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
Martha Beck
#77. Buddhists advise us to "act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference." This serious playfulness makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#78. Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to
Stephen Batchelor
#79. 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
#80. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
#81. I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
Anne Lamott
#82. The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.
Lance Henriksen
#83. I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration.
Lawrence Hill
#84. Pray as though everything depended on the Lord and work as though everything depended on you.
Brigham Young
#85. Baking was a science, precise, just mix it all together and let the oven do the work. But actually cooking, she couldn't cook a tasty meal if her life depended on it.
Allie Burke
#86. Old Noel Constant had never known anything about business, and neither had his son - and what little charm the Constants had evaporated the instant they pretended that their successes depended on their knowing their elbows from third base.
Kurt Vonnegut
#87. My life depended on some math I'd done earlier. If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up.
Andy Weir
#88. The tribe's survival and sustenance depended on each clan sharing its gifts without expectations of getting something in return. This relationship kept the Choptanks strong and united. They lived in a bountiful land, and although variety was not always available, there was plenty for everyone.
Stan E Hughes
#89. Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.
A.J. Darkholme
#90. Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
Lyall Watson
#91. Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.
Nityananda Das
#92. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
Barack Obama
#93. We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
Erica Jong
#95. Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.
Kliment Voroshilov
#96. If.
'If' always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if' depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I couldn't properly sense things if I was distracted. 'If' demanded my full presence and participation in 'now.
'If', as much as it scared me, also kept me sane.
Ransom Riggs
#97. Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
Brigham Young
#98. Those people ... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington ... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
Mark Twain
#99. Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.
Omair Ahmad
#100. Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
Bear Grylls
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