Condition Quotes
1998 Condition quotes by 1358 unique authors
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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change…
— Carter G. Woodson
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I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
— Viswanathan Anand
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To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
— David A. Bednar
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Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
— Tucker Max
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Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to…
— Kevin Whately
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences…
— Italo Calvino
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never…
— Janet Fitch
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The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
— Bell Hooks
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We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;…
— Paul Tournier
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You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your…
— Philip K. Dick
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The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to…
— Djuna Barnes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to…
— Richard Bach
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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
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