“Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.” WarFireDependsEssentialsDefenceArtilleryInfantryCavalry Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.” WorldMovingThreeWaterFireImagineAirDependsElementsWestStableFourth Book:Eight and a half women Source: Eight and a half women
“It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.” LightFirePiecesMaterialsDependsFindingsExcitingScenarios Author:Andy Garcia
“The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.” LongHas BeensI CanRememberChallengesFireTroubleRocksTypePersonalityDependsEggsPersonality Types Book:A Window Over the Sink Source: A Window Over the Sink
“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.” FirstsHandsLastsDesirePassionHalfFireTalentObjectsDependsIncreaseRegardWarmEsteemAttractiveDelicateAmbitiousOffensiveComplaintsSoberQuarrelsChokeArdent Book:The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington
“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.” WorldRealEarthWaterFireAirLandDependsModelsLaborEnormousChosenComplexityDividesReal WorldClassificationTaxonomyLabor And Capital Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.” MenMindHumansArtPhilosophyLightFireMankindDependsToolsIndependentProsperityRationalHuman LifeGoodsThinkerElectricPioneersScientific KnowledgeElectric Light Author:Andrew Bernstein
“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.” MenNeedsHappensAsksStrongSidesFireGroupsFieldsDependsHeroBalanceSafeBraveWestGenderAbstractCharacteristicsDepartmentCombatManlyBrave ManFiremanWest SideFire Department Author:Kate O'Beirne
“A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.” MenArtArtistFireDependsArt IsPaintMasterpiece Author:Christopher Walken