Quotes with condition

Quotes 41 till 60 of 148.

  • Albert Ellis I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Pepys 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.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Harriet Martineau If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • June Jordan If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Blaise Pascal If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carolyn See 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.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Wayne Dyer If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Martin Luther In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
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  • Baz Luhrmann In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Alfred Adler In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Raymond Chandler 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.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Richard D. Rosen It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
    Richard D. Rosen
    American author
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  • Thomas Carlyle Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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