Dependent Quotes - Page 10

• The way of grace is dependent, I cannot but He can.

  Joseph Prince

  Love, Grace, Way

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• Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspiration, Persistence, Best Effort

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• Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, People, Lazy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3599, Manonmani Publishers

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• The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.

  Terence Cooke

  Book, Reflection, Greatness

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• Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Would Be, Way

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• When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Husband

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.553, Routledge

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• Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  People, Risk, Facts

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• The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

  Brother Lawrence

  Perfection, Soul, Grace

  Brother Lawrence (2009). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

  Richard J. Foster

  Law, Feelings, Trying

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

  John M. McHugh

  Oil, Focus, Fuel

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• There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

  Keith Devlin

  Math, Technology, Numbers

  Keith J. Devlin (1988). “Mathematics: the new golden age”, Penguin Books

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• My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Imperfection, Promise, Use

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, World, Might

  Paul Craig Roberts (2010). “How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds”, p.1976, AK Press

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• The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

  Nikola Tesla

  Attitude, Sunshine, Ideas

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

  Denise Levertov

  Art, Imagination, Venture

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• Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

  Leon Botstein

  Generations, Levels, Definitions

  Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”

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• To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.81, Penguin

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fun, Motivation, Inspiration

  "A roadmap to end aging". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did everything.

  John Angell James

  Effort, Grace, Faith In God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 241, 1895.

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• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Relationship, Two, Guarantees

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• Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence.

  Augustus Pitt Rivers

  Odds, Discovery, Doubt

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• You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Support, Tree, Might

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• Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Art, Thinking, Giving

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• Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Self, Depth, Infinite

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