Phrase info

it depends

Meaning

it depends

Used to indicate that different situations may produce different results.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. Ray Bradbury

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. John Tyler

Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Tom Lehrer

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. Lysander Spooner

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