Condition Quotes

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The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from… — Alexander Pope
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'… — Brad Blanton
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because… — Tammy Baldwin
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation,… — Lynn Westmoreland
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.… — Parker J. Palmer
To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It… — Prentice Mulford
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,… — Anna Kingsford
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe. — Sigmar Gabriel
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth. — Lucas Papademos
Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn't believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through… — Leigh Newman
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than… — Joseph Addison
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
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… — John Updike
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die. — William Penn
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do. — Jean Rostand
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they… — Isaac Asimov
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. — Robert Breault

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