Quotes about dependent
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“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
As quoted in Plenty of Time to Sleep When You're Dead : A Compilation of Life-changing Quotes (2006) by Richard Caridi
As quoted in Sprituality in a Materialistic World (2008) by Leslie Klein
Variant: Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Source: "Young Goodman Brown"
Context: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.”
Source: Summer in the City
"Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949)
Context: A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. We call him good or bad according to how he stands in this matter. It looks at first sight as if our estimate of a man depended entirely on his social qualities.
And yet such an attitude would be wrong. It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine — each was discovered by one man.
Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
“how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Anna Wulf, in "The Golden Notebook"
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.
Context: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. … I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been. <!-- p. 585
“Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.”
“There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Letter to Dr. James Currie (28 January 1786) Lipscomb & Bergh 18:ii
1780s
“Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake,A composing as the body tires, a stop
To see hepatica, a stop to watch
A definition growing certain andA wait within that certainty, a rest
In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake.
Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence</p
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html
Source: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 167
Source: Letter to a Child Never Born
“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
Source: Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life
Source: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)
Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18
“Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 6, “Lady” (pp. 192-193)
Source: The Alchemist
“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”
Source: Dust & Decay
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Source: Bayou Moon
The reference to Cassius is that of the character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Listen to an mp3 sound file http://www.otr.com/murrow_mccarthy.shtml of parts of this statement.
See It Now (1954)
Context: No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Good night, and good luck.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”
Source: The Sands of Time
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: The Essays: A Selection
Book I, Ch. 20
Attributed
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.”
Source: The Titan's Curse
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short story for this anthology.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Source: Hons and Rebels
“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”
From the published screenplay for "The Big Brass Ring" (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Teresa Press, 1987)
Variant: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
“Because being so dependent on people scares me.”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
