Condition Quotes

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Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of… — William John Locke
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without… — Emile M. Cioran
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition.… — Susan B. Anthony
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment,… — Diane Ackerman
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls… — John Quincy Adams
The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future… — John Quincy Adams
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquieÂ tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est miseÂ rable: il est donc miseÂ rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In… — Blaise Pascal
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once. — Stephen Hawking
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. — Michael J. Fox
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. — Erich Fromm
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. — Erich Fromm
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. — Erich Fromm
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. — Robert Frost
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. — Mahatma Gandhi
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition. — Carlos Ghosn
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to… — Andre Gide

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