Condition Quotes

• Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Reality
  • Condition
  • Contact

• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

  

  Gerry Spence
  • Simple
  • Winning
  • Human

• The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Nothing
  • Become
  • Substance

• It takes a lot when you are a professional fighter to stay in top condition. You have to sacrifice a lot and I did.

  

  Bonnie Canino
  • Sacrifice
  • Condition
  • Fighter

• Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spiritual
  • Progress
  • Mortification

• One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

  

  Aldo Rossi
  • City
  • Architecture
  • Condition

• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Mother
  • Community
  • Isolation

• Goneness. It sounds like a condition because it is. It's not a blank space waiting to be filled, but a deep hole that will forever be a hole- a cruel, carved-out crater or violently dug indentation, a chasm left by something that has been removed.

  

  Allison Moorer
  • Space
  • Condition
  • Goneness

• I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Place
  • Films
  • Condition

• If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Work
  • Children
  • Kids

• Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Humble
  • Pilgrim

• I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mankind
  • Exists
  • Improve

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

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poet
  • Profession
  • Condition

• When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Problem
  • Condition
  • Description

• Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Disease
  • Writers
  • Outside

• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Soul
  • Teach
  • Architecture

• Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

  

  Judy Parfitt
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Condition

• A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

  

  Archibald Alexander Hodge
  • Church
  • Salvation
  • Condition

• Variety is the condition of harmony.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Harmony
  • Condition
  • Variety

• What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His children of their right to divine dignity. ... I can offer still another answer: 'Sin is any act or thought that robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem'.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Human
  • Act

• It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Important
  • Person
  • Condition

• Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Party
  • Condition

• If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Think
  • Sick
  • Condition

• The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Matter
  • Term
  • Electronic

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