Depends Quotes

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.

TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

I think every man should have a pair of boots. They're really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends.

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

Who "wins" and who "loses" depends on when you measure it.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends on it. We can be saved only by God Himself.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.