You Can't Depend On Others Quotes

#1. The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though we depend upon it so completely.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Michael Pollan

#3. On every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Robert Gordis

#4. Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Grenville Kleiser

#5. The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#6. What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

David R. Brower

#7. 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

#8. He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.

Susan Warner

#9. Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement; intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without discernment and selection.

Baltasar Gracian

#10. 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

#11. Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Aristotle.

#12. 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

#13. Have goals, Chase dreams, but do not let your happiness depend on their acheivement.

Manoj Arora

#14. Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Publilius Syrus

#15. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#16. Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.

The Arbinger Institute

#17. 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

#18. Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?

William Arthur Ward

#19. Your needs are overwhelming? You can't depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don't even know what they are? Then need nothing.

Caroline Knapp

#20. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not ... What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.

Oswald Chambers

#21. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas

#22. All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#23. You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

Virginia Woolf

#24. We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Karen Armstrong

#25. Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Paul Brunton

#26. They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

Henry A. Kissinger

#27. More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

Ismail Serageldin

#28. The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Desiderius Erasmus

#29. We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#30. It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

Billy Collins

#31. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow

#32. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

#33. In bed above, we're deep asleep.
While greater love lies further deep.
This dream must end,
The world must know,
We all depend on the beat below.

Steven Moffat

#34. Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Peter Remnant

#35. We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#36. God's manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

Joseph Mawle

#38. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Lawrence Durrell