Top 100 Condition Quotes
#2. There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.
William Stanley Jevons
#3. She was always talking about her "condition." Her "condition" was in no way apparent, and no one would have known a thing about it but for her persistence in making it the subject of conversation.
Kate Chopin
#4. Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
Wiley Miller
#5. The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
George Edward Woodberry
#6. Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.
Anna Julia Cooper
#7. Sometimes things that are worth having are worth fixing up. Not everything comes in perfect condition, but it doesn't mean it's not the right one for you.
S.M. Reine
#8. Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
Mary Augusta Ward
#9. How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something
Arthur Phillips
#10. Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
Plato
#11. I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.
Tim Gunn
#12. When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.
Chief Joseph
#13. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
Eileen Brennan
#14. We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition.
Wendell Berry
#15. 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
#16. I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.
Niall Ferguson
#17. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.
Marcus Garvey
#19. Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.
Hippocrates
#20. Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.
Irving Penn
#21. God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.
Smith Wigglesworth
#22. Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Charles Stross
#23. I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
Isabel Allende
#24. Even if, right then, he could not name the condition, he recognized what it felt like. It felt like each moment of what he'd once been able to call his life were being reshuffled over and over like a deck of cards.
Lynn Kostoff
#25. Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
John Lubbock
#26. But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.
Russell Hoban
#27. Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
Zane Grey
#28. Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.
Cristina Henriquez
#29. Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.
Milo Winter
#30. Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
Ai Weiwei
#31. While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich Hayek
#32. Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
Victor Hugo
#33. I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
Jim Brown
#34. What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up? ... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.
Robert Benchley
#35. Love has no conditions. When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love. Love is condition-less. Love is barrier-less. Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees ... they are just on for everyone. When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural.
Chidanand Saraswati
#36. Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory.
Heidi Betts
#37. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
Tom DeMarco
#38. We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
Jules Renard
#39. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
Peter Thiel
#40. You know how it's crazy embarrassing to watch a movie with your parents when a steamy love scene comes on? You basically wish the couch cushions would swallow you and suddenly the condition of your nail beds is far more interesting than what's on the screen?
Jen Malone
#41. The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
John Stuart Mill
#42. The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.
Paul Hellyer
#43. Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
William H. Hastie
#44. It's all about human condition, ultimately. That's what you're looking at. You're also looking to have some fun, as well, because that also translates. Maybe wearing tights once in awhile helped. Getting up on a horse a couple of times before might have helped.
Joseph Fiennes
#45. A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.
Thomas Moore
#46. As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
Jack Kelly
#47. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
John D. MacDonald
#48. The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.
Gene Kelly
#50. The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Howard Schultz
#51. The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.
Henry James
#52. Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
Carl Jung
#53. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
Epictetus
#54. 'The Human Condition' is me exploring some ideas and thoughts that I have that don't fit one sound. I'm giving emotions a sound - it's a fusion of genres. There are four EPs in 'The Human Condition'; each title is a different emotion.
Wynter Gordon
#55. The world is in serious condition largely due to our conditioning to be serious. Seriously.
Swami Beyondananda
#56. Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
Herbert Simon
#57. People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.
George Eliot
#58. The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It's time for science to examine the many facets of the soul. The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.
Suzy Kassem
#59. I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Jack Levine
#60. Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition
Wally Olins
#61. Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.
Bikram Choudhury
#62. Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.
James Taranto
#63. Happiness doesn't depend on external condition or situation but it depends on mental condition.
Debasish Mridha
#64. SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans, Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#65. There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
Penny Reid
#67. The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.
Frederick Lenz
#68. A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
Ursula Hegi
#69. To be communal is to be something fallacious. It is to be something more or less than being, a subjugation or propagation of the self to exist within the external condition.
Dew Platt
#70. Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.
Jeremy Griffith
#71. Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.
Richard Jefferies
#72. The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
Jose Mourinho
#73. Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
Ernestine Rose
#74. Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#75. More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.
Adrian McKinty
#76. There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
Merle Haggard
#77. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
Betty Dodson
#78. According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves:
Julie Ingersoll
#79. The basic condition of human life is happiness.
Dalai Lama
#80. Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
Samuel Pepys
#81. A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
Iain Duncan Smith
#82. I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart. This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.
John Bunyan
#83. Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale Turner
#84. I take really good care of myself, and I make sure that my body's in tip-top condition, and I stay on top of everything - eat right and do everything else to make sure that I can play for a long time.
Wes Welker
#85. How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted. How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?
Charles Teo
#87. If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
Richard Bach
#89. The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
Tom Clancy
#90. Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
Ernest Hemingway,
#91. Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
Niels Diffrient
#92. Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
T.D. Jakes
#93. Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.
Jean Liedloff
#95. The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
#96. Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
Eve Arnold
#98. President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.
Tom Vilsack
#99. Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#100. The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
Martin Van Buren
