Condition Quotes

• Asperger's doesn't define me. It's a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Understanding
  • Condition
  • Define

• The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Human
  • Degree of tension
  • Creatively borne

• The first condition is that the referee didn't see or punish what we will eventually talk about,

  

  Adriano Galliani
  • Condition
  • Referee

• I think it will be important to make sure I'm in the best condition possible for this weekend. At the beginning of the season, I began preparing for the road courses by lifting more weights and trying to improve my conditioning. I've found that the combination of swimming and then running really adds a new dimension to my overall performance as I have built my stamina significantly over the past several months.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Best
  • Beginning
  • Built

• That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Health care
  • Medicare
  • Death Panel

• There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Way
  • Virtue
  • Pugnacity

• An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

  

  Dennis Covington
  • Writing
  • Recognition
  • Account

• A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • State
  • Noble
  • Permanent

• I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Desire
  • Youth
  • Condition

• When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Teaching
  • Heavenly Father
  • Adam And Eve

• Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Condition

• En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knows
  • Word
  • Miserable

• The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

  

  George Inness
  • Art
  • Condition
  • Motion

• Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't take The freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roads And bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast. And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Happiness
  • Storms
  • Road Trip

• Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

  

  Angela of Foligno
  • Man
  • Worth
  • Condition

• My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Reading
  • Struggle
  • Listening

• There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

  

  Morris West
  • Past
  • Human
  • Every

• Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.

  

  Walter Cradock
  • Condition
  • Saint
  • Rejoice

• With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Vision
  • Condition
  • Obstruction

• We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Uncertainty

• Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition

  

  Wallace Olins, CBE
  • Profound
  • Condition
  • Branding

• I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • God
  • Age
  • Fresh

• A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Government
  • Prince
  • Condition

• Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Memories
  • Condition

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