Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1358 authors
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I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with…
— Carlos Castaneda
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I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially…
— Norman Mailer
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Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
— Lisa Kleypas
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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll…
— Alice Munro
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Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in…
— Helen Rowland
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
— Jane Yolen
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It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their…
— Dean Koontz
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I…
— Julio Cortazar
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Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but…
— Julian Barnes
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The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the…
— Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step…
— Salvador Dali
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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware…
— Lionel Shriver
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that…
— Isak Dinesen
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