A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Ernest Bramah

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
Clarence Stein

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Alyssa Milano

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Francesco Guicciardini

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
Nicolas Malebranche

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Eliot

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Bodhidharma

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
Henry Taube

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
Martin Feldstein

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
Steven Pinker

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
George Henry Lewes

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.
Drew Carey

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
James Forrestal

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.
Jupiter Hammon

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.
Lawrence Halprin

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer