Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

Maine and us go back and forth, depending on the year.

Let's have a look at it, see what we can do with those (programs). Depending on the money situation, I think our sidewalks should be fixed ... I think we need to put safety first.

Sharon Salzberg

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

Tom Rath

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

Tony Ross

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies.

George Pataki

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

Todd Rundgren

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

Thomas Friedman

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Some are like lap dogs. It all depends on how you raise and treat your dog from day one. You get out of it what you put into it.

Dusty Baker

Some of it depends on how healthy Todd's legs feel. He is still recuperating from last year. The hard ground down here puts pressure on your legs.

She has to get double-doubles for us. She's a player that you depend upon at this time of the year.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a great player. We may put two or three players on her, it depends on whether we have to. Candace Parker is a great player, but she's not the entire Tennessee team.

She knows the team depends on her to put points on the board.

She is very dependable and will find a way to hit a hole. She's very solid in her technique.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Bill Richardson

We're here to try to find ways to, perhaps, encourage utilities to switch to natural gas so that we're not so dependent on home heating oil in this region,

We really haven't shown how well we can shoot the ball. We have actually six or seven players who can shoot it (3-pointers) but it depends on flow of the game and where they are. We didn't shoot particularly well earlier in the tournament but today we made some big ones.

We really have no idea what her prognosis is. Every day is another gift. Some of it depends on what's God's plan for them.

We really do. We depend on him quite a bit. Especially at the plate.

Christopher Williams

The external shocks that we are exposed to as a small island is our import dependency and the major item being, of course, oil.

Aristotle

Your happiness depends on you alone.

The primary focus is the maximum rate of manure-spreading, depending on the slope of the land. The steeper the land, the less manure you can apply.

We need diesel. We'll find some. We have people depending on us and we are not going to let them down,

Chris Chocola

We need to move away from our dependence on foreign sources of energy, and instead utilize the energy resources we have right here at home.

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

Security technologies depend on the correctness of the system they're actually checking.

She's a real inspiration. It is such a private thing. You wonder how far to go with it. I guess it depends on who you are.

Donald Johanson

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Chrissie Hynde

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

Charles Koch

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.