Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1390 authors
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of…
— Alexander Calder
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Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides…
— James Forten
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All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state…
— Harvey Penick
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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
— Diane Arbus
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is…
— Neil Kinnock
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Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because…
— Stephen King
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.
— Janet Fitch
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all…
— Steven Erikson
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Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded…
— Kenneth Burke
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma.…
— Barbara Boxer
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There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether…
— Esther Hicks
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It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
— Grover Cleveland
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To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
— Thomas Cole
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It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one…
— John C. Calhoun
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To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you…
— Eckhart Tolle
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In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but…
— Jacobus Arminius
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A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his…
— Gary Neville
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Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
— Che Guevara
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