Condition Quotes

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

Autism is a very serious condition.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.