Quotes with condition

  • That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
  • When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
  • It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
  • If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
  • Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
  • The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
  • History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
  • Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
  • I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
  • There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
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  • Willa Cather The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Mandell Creighton The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
    Mandell Creighton
    British historian and bishop (1843 - 1901)
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Milton Friedman History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Eugène Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Walter Pater All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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  • Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • David O. Mckay Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
    David O. Mckay
    American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Conrad Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carter G. Woodson As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Marilyn vos Savant Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
    Marilyn vos Savant
    American magazine columnist, author and lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Carlos Pena Romulo Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Geldof Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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