Condition Quotes

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

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.

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

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.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.