Condition Quotes

• Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

  

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • Human
  • Condition
  • Validation

• 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
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Healthy

• 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

• Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with them, for the deaf are what their schooling make them more than any other class of humans. They are facing not a theory but a condition, for they are first, last, and all the time the people of the eye.

  

  George Veditz
  • Education
  • Condition
  • Deaf

• 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

• 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

• If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happy
  • Condition
  • Diversion

• 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

• 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

• There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.

  

  Steve Scalise
  • Health care
  • Condition
  • Discriminated

• 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

• Variety is the condition of harmony.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Harmony
  • Condition
  • Variety

• I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Paris
  • Condition
  • Pocket

• Not playing would be worse. These games are very important for our team. It doesn't matter what condition, I'm going to do my best. At least my mind is healthy.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Team
  • Playing
  • Healthy

• If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Condition
  • Frenzy

• With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

  

  Arnold Beichman
  • Human
  • Condition
  • Revolutions

• The transition as far as our living conditions has been relatively easy. But as far as our mental state, I think everyone's suffering right now.

  

  Ray Wilson Genesis
  • Living
  • Condition
  • Transition

• Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Condition
  • Species

• 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

• Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Soul
  • Deep
  • Journey

• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Condition
  • Mastery
  • Cultivating

• The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Powerful
  • Choice
  • Status

• Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

  

  Miguel Syjuco
  • Human
  • Humans
  • Purgatory

• My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

  

  William Trevor
  • Human
  • Fiction
  • Aspect

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