Dependability Quotes (page 37)

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• happy
• manly
• marriage

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde

• reading
• life
• inspirational

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. Adrienne Rich

• poetry
• science
• scientific

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric. Anne Rice

• time
• pain
• change

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever. Graham Greene

• goodbye
• kiss
• thoughts

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out. Orson Scott Card

• good
• loser
• dependence

It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one. Billie Joe Armstrong

• evening
• strength
• bored

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength Jack Kerouac

• time
• perseverance
• words

In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere. Chuck Palahniuk

• dream
• reality
• innocent

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. Michael Pollan

• hand
• him
• look

The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread. Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm. We turn back the crowd as the anthem of Panem plays. Oh well, I think. There will be twenty-four of us. Odds are someone else will kill him before I do. Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late. Suzanne Collins

• love
• happy
• spring

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love. Henryk Sienkiewicz

• music
• background
• church

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. Joyce Carol Oates

• ocean
• die
• life

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean. Henry Miller

• art
• pain
• life

But if anything in thy own disposition gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just... Marcus Aurelius

• freedom
• lost
• ours

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson