Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Basil Hume

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
Tom Skerritt

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
Tori Amos

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
Bjarne Stroustrup

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
William Jennings Bryan

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Guru Nanak

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?
Geraldo Rivera

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
Joyce Appleby

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Bill Moyers

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.
John Anderson

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna Ciccone

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.
Don Rose

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.
Richard Pombo

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
Walter Gilbert