Home / Topics / Depends Quotes

Depends Quotes

Browse 3984 quotes about Depends.

Depends Quotes

“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?”

“Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.”

Turns Depends Assembly Instantaneous

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Feelings Turns Freedom Painting Depends

Book:Blue Dog Man

Source: Blue Dog Man

“Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.”

Bigs Political Turns Opportunity Economic Missing Events Depends Errors Surprise Financial Ashamed Clients Say Anything Cumulative Outlandish Big Surprises

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.”

Believe Has Beens Done Feelings Religion Turns Women Modern Effects Sweet Depends Intellectual Communicate Invention Therapy Distinction Relative Protestantism

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.”

“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"”

People Bigs Turns Boys Like You Depends Universal Election Instruments Democratic Chiefs Platforms Dictatorship Dictator

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.”

Feels May Two Matter Happens Care Turns Force Situation Keys Depends Findings Tasks Mercy Alternatives Meaningless Confronting

Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

“Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?”

Ifs Firsts Whole Turns Laughing Depends Sailor Crossings Helm

Author:Emile Chartier

“No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.”

“Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.”

Form Turns Rooms Cutting Doors Depends Advantage Window Cups Clay Utility

Author:Laozi

“True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.”

Knows Done Turns Depends Forgiving Repentance Wrong Reconciliation Wrongdoing Disclosure Acknowledgment

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work together to stabilize the government, save the institutions of government, and turn on ISIL and preserve Syria." That could happen. It all depends on one man, and Russia and Iran should not be so stubborn here that they tie this whole thing up simply because of one person.”

Ifs Men Should Persons Whole Government Happens Together Turns Process Depends Institutions Russia Preserves Ties Working Together Iran One Man Transition Syria Stubborn Turn-on Assad Isil

Author:John F. Kerry

“The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.”

Kind Wisdom Turns Differences Depends Bars Faux Faux Pas

Book:Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner

Source: Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner

“The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.”