Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
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.
. . . no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.
Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.
We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.
Leadership does not depend on being right.
If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.
Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now. ". . . this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.