“What we mean when we say "terrible conditions" is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions. — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Enterprises of different ownerships should all enjoy fair opportunities and conditions to compete in the market. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
It was hilarious [last scene with Edward Cullen] considering we'd spent the entire series filming in the most miserable conditions, and then… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image