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
BoredomSituationOutsideDepend
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
WomanManStandYouProtectDepend
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
GodAloneHimDependAlikeUnion
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
EyesFocusImaginationYouDepend
Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.
Kelli O'Hara
CharacterGreatTimeSongDepend
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
HappinessAloneServiceWifeDepend
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.
Greg Graffin
ScienceFindGoNewTeachersDepend
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
LiveHappinessManPhilosophyDepend
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
Elihu Root
JusticeLawFactsRulesDependMay
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
WorkReligionOthersDependOutOwn
There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.
Alex Pareene
PeopleMoreDependExistCandidate
I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.
Rebecca Wells
LoveThoughtKnowNowAlwaysDepend
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
QuestionsLiteratureYouPoseDepend
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
James Buchan
BusinessProfitAlwaysDependHigher
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
VisionArtLookMindsDependThings
I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
Carolyn Chute
LifeLovePeopleKindPoorDepend
Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
Zack Snyder
MyselfThinkAestheticDependWould
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
NatureSucceedTryingHardDepend
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill
DesireWillAbilityDependObsession
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
John Burroughs
HomeManAnimalsSpecialHimDepend
I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
Katarina Witt
SupportPeopleYouGoDependOut
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
John Hutton
ServiceBestExcellenceWayDepend
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau
SupportPeopleMeViewYouDepend
To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.
Robert J. Bentley
GovernmentPeopleThinkFairDepend
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