Quotes About Condition

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

But the herm was gray-faced, lips purple-blue, eyelids fluttering. An IV pump, not dependent upon potentially erratic ship's gravity, infused yellow fluid rapidly into Bel's right arm. The left arm was strapped to a board; plastic tubing filled with blood ran from under a bandage and into a hybrid appliance bound around with quantities of plastic tape. A second tube ran back again, its dark surface moist with condensation.

The acceptance of our present condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children.

The sinful state and condition in which men are born is designated in theology by the name peccatum originale, which is literally translated in the English "original sin.

Wherever we have the essential elements of a covenant, namely, contracting parties, a promise or promises, and a condition, there we have a covenant

Mr. Pendanski's face was so swollen, he could barely open his eyes. They were just slits.

He was always proud of the fact that he had an abnormally low pulse of fifty-two.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Madison wrote, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." The two shared a grim vision of the human condition, even if Hamilton's had the blacker tinge. They both wanted to erect barriers against irrational popular impulses and tyrannical minorities and majorities.

But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

The person whose joy is dependant upon certain conditions is not himself joyful; his joy, after all, is that of the conditions and is conditional upon them.

Everything depends upon how one is placed.

A person in sorrow or distress knows why he sorrows or is distressed. If you ask a melancholic what reason he has for his condition, what it is that weighs him down, he will replay, 'I don't know, what it is, I cannot explain it.' (pp499)

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

Your good health is the thing you have until the day your doctor tells you you don't have it any more.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

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

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

Sólo tengo dos adversarios, y no vencedores, porque con la constancia los sujeto, y son el tiempo y el espacio. El tercero, y el más terrible, es mi condición de hombre mortal.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man.

The sentiment of flattery is instinctive with people of abject condition; they have the sense of it, as the wild animal has that of hearing and smell.

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.