Quotes About Reliance

I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

I wasn't really built for athleticism or speed, I always had to rely on my mind and my instincts.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Our hope will never be found in the efforts of man, but in Jesus Christ alone.

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

Well, that's good. I don't think human-written code exists anymore. It's code written by code written by code—turtles all the way down.