Rely Quotes - Page 4

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

We can no longer rely on the rules of the past to win.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.