Condition Quotes

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

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 his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.