If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect. — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If you are female, and conditions are otherwise apt, you are supposed to decide whether you want to become a mother by… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk! — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
