The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff.
Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.
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.
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine. . . 'Cause you're a friend of mine.
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.