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Condition Quotes by John Updike
- Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows…
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- 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…
- My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays…
More Condition Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil