Condition Quotes

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From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;… — William Shakespeare
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a… — Tom Stoppard
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and… — Walt Whitman
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… — Mark Rothko
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is… — Gregory Maguire
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that itâ€™s condition has everything to… — Richard Bach
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be… — Cormac McCarthy
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up… — John Steinbeck
It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them… — Rick Bragg
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances. — John Lubbock
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever… — Janet Fitch
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… — Hannah Arendt
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and… — Wendell Berry

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