"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to… — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions… — William Frederick Book Copy Share Image
“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life… — Paul Sereno Copy Share Image