Our Condition Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or… — Bernard Berenson
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — John Ross
There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct… — Oliver Lodge
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we… — Saul Bellow
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — L. W. Sumner
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days,… — Phillips Brooks
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nationâ€™s future and my moral outrage regarding my… — Ari Shavit
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with… — Edmund Burke
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition. — Ryan Holiday
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light. — Frederick Lenz
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only… — Robert Zubrin
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes… — Michel de Montaigne
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for… — Dean Koontz
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal

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