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Sometimes in the symphony of our inconsequential whims, the most profound truths wait inevitably to be discovered -- like melodies actively found as life unfolds scarce rehearsals.
Author:
Misaki Hiroshi
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Just as sharp angles define a blueprint, our anxieties carve out cliffs in the overall structure of our joy.
Author:
Elena Reinharts
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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
Author:
James Wolfe
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We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
Author:
Heather Wilson
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The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
Author:
William Shirley
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People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.
Author:
John Shimkus
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
Author:
William Shenstone
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If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
Author:
John Shadegg
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Author:
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
Author:
Bernie Sanders
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I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
Author:
John Salazar
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At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
Author:
Moo-hyum Roh
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No one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence.
Author:
Caesar Rodney
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We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
Author:
Rick Renzi
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
Author:
Richard Owen
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.
Author:
Kenny Marchant
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He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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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.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
Author:
Ernst Mach
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The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
Author:
Seth Low
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
Author:
Ron Kind
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By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
Author:
Tim Johnson
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
Author:
Laura Ingraham
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One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Author:
Tim Holden
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
Author:
Virgil Goode
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As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
Author:
Paul Gillmor
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Author:
John Gay
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The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.
Author:
Martin Feldstein
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There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
Author:
Elizabeth Dole
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The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
Author:
Dorothy Dix
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One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
Author:
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
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We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.
Author:
Charlie Dent
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Author:
Charles Cooley
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
Author:
James Coleman
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
Author:
Jim Clyburn
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
Author:
J. Clark
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
Author:
John Ciardi
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In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
Author:
Mary Blakely
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Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.
Author:
Judy Biggert
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If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
Author:
Judy Biggert
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The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
Author:
James Baldwin
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Author:
Fred Allen
