Depends Quotes - Page 8

• The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

  Story Musgrave

  Past, Way, Remember

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

  Michael Greger

  Vegetables, Fruit, Eating

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• If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Over You, Juggernaut, Wheels

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.11, University of Michigan Press

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• Everything in this world depends upon will.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, This World

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4161, Delphi Classics

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• It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Society, Ingredients, Company

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• The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, People, Evil

  Pearl S. Buck (1954). “My Several Worlds”

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• What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Knowing, Ideas

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• The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Women, Heart, Majority

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• All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Energy, Illusion, Periods

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• To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Self, Desire

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Character, Men

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• The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Decision, Economic

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.81, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Good Man, Society

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Talent, Capacity

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• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sheep, Thieves, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

  Bill Vaughan

  Art, Book, Adversity

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• The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Self, Stimulus, Chosen

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

  Alexander Pope

  Grace, Argument, Instruction

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

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• Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ghouls, Safety, Usual

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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• In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.

  Margaret Mead

  Survival, Age, Quality

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• The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Real, Men

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.83

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• science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Past, Discovery

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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