Condition Quotes

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.