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Quotes About Condition

The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That's just a normal use.
~ Mo Farah
I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
~ Garth Davis
I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
~ Barry Unsworth
The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition. The last part always irritated Banks: how could a corpse ever be in good physical condition ?
~ Peter Robinson
Thompson: No, you get around that with idioms in the language. Some people write fragile code and some people write very structurally sound code, and this is a condition of people. I think in almost any language you can write fragile code. My definition of fragile code is, suppose you want to add a feature—good code, there's one place where you add that feature and it fits; fragile code, you've got to touch ten places.
~ Peter Seibel
The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.
~ Peter Watts
proprioceptive polyneuropathy.
~ Peter Watts
fibrodysplasia
~ Peter Watts
The Ramirezes first realized Richard was epileptic when he had an attack in the fifth grade.
~ Philip Carlo
There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can be preserved for thousands of years. Those that are relevant only to a few are lost forever.
~ Philip Freeman
Poor as the poor myself, I cling tight, like them, to demeaning hopes; like them, every day of my life I fight/just to live/Yet in my disheartening condition as one of the dispossessed, I still possess--and it's the most thrilling of bourgeois possessions, the ultimate state of being. Yet as I possess history, I am possessed by it, I am enlightened by it: but what good is the light?
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.
~ Cliff Stearns
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
~ Barbara Jordan
Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.
~ Tim Scott
I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.
~ Strom Thurmond
I'm not in shape.
~ Julie Bowen
No matter how badly you play, you want to come out healthy.
~ Kurt Warner
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
~ Jon Krakauer
The day is dark and gloomy, unsettled and uncertain, like the condition of our country, in regard to the unnatural war with Mexico
~ Jon Meacham
People ask, "Why is there poverty in the world?" It's a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil.
~ Jonah Goldberg
I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity.
~ Jonathan Franzen
May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
~ Jonathan Lethem
Like a black, velvety cloth set against diamonds, your disability provides a remarkable backdrop that magnifies patience, perseverance, endurance, and an uncomplaining spirit. These Christlike qualities that God longs to cultivate in your life are amplified against your obvious hardships. Your chronic condition is, no doubt, obvious to others—but what God wants to make obvious to others is your perseverance and lack of complaint.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
El envejecimiento (igual que la muerte) es una de las pocas características democráticas y ecuánimes de nuestra condición humana; algo que nos unifica y define a todos más allá de nuestras diversidades y de la realidad de un mundo tan cambiante
~ Jorge Bucay