Top 100 To Depend Quotes
#2. On every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
Robert Gordis
#3. But suffering does not automatically bring glory to God and blessing to God's people. Some believers have fainted and fallen in times of trial and have brought shame to the name of Christ. It is only when we depend on the grace of God that we can glorify God in times of suffering.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#4. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.
Edwin H. Friedman
#5. I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
Tasha Smith
#6. The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#7. Let not thy peace depend on the tongues of men; for whether they judge well of thee or ill, thou art not on that account other than thyself. Where are true peace and true glory? Are they not in God? And he that careth not to please men, nor feareth to displease them, shall enjoy much peace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#8. The great Tao is universal like a flood ... All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.
Lao-Tzu
#9. In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
Henry Ward Beecher
#10. All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
John F. Kennedy
#11. I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?
David Wessel
#12. The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
William Henry Harrison
#13. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.
Mary Alice
#14. Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper
#15. While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.
Ashwin Sanghi
#16. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. Any church that emphasizes on miracles is simply telling His members that they don't need to qualify but depend on the supernatural power.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.
John C. Bogle
#19. He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
Patrick Suskind
#20. The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
Woodrow Wilson
#21. And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. If we only depend on what people say verbally, we're not even close to understand half of what is really going on. Go deeper!
Assegid Habtewold
#23. Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims.
Voltaire
#24. You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.
Michelle Moran
#25. If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.
Juan Enriquez
#26. Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
Samuel Smiles
#27. We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#28. The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.
Spike Jonze
#29. There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Mark Twain
#30. For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau
#31. Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.
Nicholas Wiseman
#32. I care for the poor. I am the one willing to work with the poor and have a safety net we can all depend on and make people understand that nothing in life is free. You have to get back to society.
Paul LePage
#33. ( ... ) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. ( ... ) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence - once they became an option - they mutated ... into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.
Chip Kidd
#34. It's a terrible thing to have my life depend on my half-assed handiwork.
Andy Weir
#35. Love isn't a feeling. It's much deeper than that. Yes, it's a choice, but there's also a necessity to be with that person that makes you depend on that person for survival. That feeling can't be fabricated.
K.R. Grace
#36. The story ended with a moral: Large Enterprises Depend Upon Small Details. Jeremy couldn't see why it couldn't have just as well been: It's Wrong To Trap Nonexistent Women in Clocks, or: It Would Have Worked With A Glass Spring.
Terry Pratchett
#37. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
Alicia Keys
#38. To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#39. I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close to nature. And some people actually worship nature, which is too wishy-washy because - like a lot of religious believers - they don't depend on facts.
Greg Graffin
#40. The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.
John Rawls
#41. I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
Frances O'Grady
#42. Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
D. J. Enright
#43. In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
Siri Hustvedt
#44. I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!
Rashida Jones
#45. From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.
Eric Bogosian
#46. We owe our fellow citizens something better than an institutional
structure that allows their fates to depend so deeply on the brute
luck of class origin.
Debra Satz
#47. I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking ... I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain ... by taking lessons in seeing ... optometrists hate the method ...
Aldous Huxley
#48. You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#49. The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.
Bruce Springsteen
#50. The child must depend on the most imperfect mother; the mother may be devoted to the most unworthy children; in such relations legal revenges are vain.
G.K. Chesterton
#51. Say whatever you want about Stoke Jones, you could depend on him to put a little f/u into your day.
Stephen King
#52. I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#53. The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
#54. Those who depend fully on another person's knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields , but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.
Joelle Charbonneau Independent Study
#55. All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
Nicolas Malebranche
#56. On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.
Anthony M. Esolen
#57. Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.
Hudson Taylor
#58. Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles - yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
Larry Bucshon
#59. Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him.
D.L. Moody
#60. Whenever you give any living creature cause to depend on you, be careful on no account to disappoint it.
Julie Klassen
#61. When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.
Arnold Palmer
#62. My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
Thomas Merton
#63. One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.
Madeleine L'Engle
#64. We need far too many leaders to depend only on the naturals.
Peter F. Drucker
#65. No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
Hilda Solis
#66. Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.
Swami Satchidananda
#67. What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.
Tim Berners-Lee
#68. The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them
Jacob Sullum
#70. My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.
Emraan Hashmi
#71. Shae-Lynn, come on. You know I didn't mean for it to happen that way. I was just trying to do right by you."
"Doing right by me would have been respecting my wishes and keeping your promises. Leave me alone, Billy. I don't want to be friends with someone I can't depend on.
D.R. Graham
#72. I shall take my present leave-but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that ... His Divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in ... the wise measures on which the success of this government must depend.
George Washington
#73. Focus can become an obsession ... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how enjoyable and productive it is. So create an environment that makes you want to remain focused.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#74. Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
Emily Oster
#75. The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the highest form of literature, poetry, brings no wealth to the singer. For producing your best work also you will require some leisure and freedom from sordid care.
Oscar Wilde
#76. If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.
Al Roker
#77. Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.
Charles W. Pickering
#78. We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.
Laurence Sterne
#79. Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
K. Eric Drexler
#80. If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
Justin Amash
#81. If a man comes up and asks you for fish to eat, do not just give the fish. If you do this, the man will continue to come back for more, again and again. When you give the fish, you must teach him how to catch the fish, so he can depend on himself, learn, catch many fish, and teach others.
Daniel Chidiac
#82. Many of you have loved ones who are wandering off the path to eternal life. You wonder what more you can do to bring them back. You can depend on the Lord to draw closer to them as you serve Him in faith.
Henry B. Eyring
#83. People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.
Thomas Szasz
#84. Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. [...] There is no being; there is only inter-being.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#85. There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
Elvis Presley
#86. Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.
Duke Ellington
#87. A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.
Aristotle.
#88. My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
Albert Einstein
#89. Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Alyssa Milano
#90. Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
Rajneesh
#91. My affection for you does not depend on those small things.'
Affection? To hear him admit it, to actually utter words of love, however understated, astonished me.
Peter Goldsworthy
#92. She was partial to emeralds; she said they were the single thing that remained constant, always green, always the same ... My mother had been right, it was one thing that lasted, the one thing we could depend on. Other than our love for each other, it was all we had right now.
Alice Hoffman
#93. He didn't depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.
Damon Galgut
#94. There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write
Stevie Nicks
#95. My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
Dale Carnegie
#96. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#97. Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.
Beyonce Knowles
#98. If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
Alistair Begg
#99. All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#100. I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.
Amartya Sen
