Dependent Quotes

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. (Carl Sagan)
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. View quote
John D. MacDonald
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. View quote
George Eliot
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. View quote
Galileo Galilei
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
A firm consist of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur. View quote
Ronald Coase
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many. (B. H. Liddell Hart)
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. View quote
Lucretius
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. View quote
Zhuangzi
Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. View quote
Karl Marx
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. View quote
Eben Alexander
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. View quote
Denis Waitley
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you. View quote
Charles Evers
I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. (Harold Brodkey)
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. View quote
Lionel Blue
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. View quote
Olympia Brown
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. View quote
Robert McChesney
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity... View quote
Buckminster Fuller