Quotes About Condition

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. —JAMES BALDWIN

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. The secrecy, the obfuscation, the fact that these monsters can only be hinted at, gives us the sense that they must be very bad indeed. But when people let their monsters out for a little onstage interview, it turns out that we've all done or thought the same things, that this is our lot, our condition. We don't end up with a brand on our forehead. Instead we compare notes.

If we condition ourselves to work without flow, it's more likely to arrive.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

The man felt that she had not been a very good mother and was not a good person. At one point, Nisargadatta advised him to love his mother. The man replied, "She wouldn't let me." Nisargadatta responded, "She couldn't stop you." No external condition can prevent love; no one and no thing can stop it. The awakening of love is not bound up in things being a certain way. Metta, like the true nature of the mind, is not dependent; it is not conditioned.

Aristotle noted that leisure was a necessary condition in the politics of a good society.31 Or, as an early twentieth-century populist rephrased it, "Raise less corn and more hell.

Please don't let it be another cop. I'm outta bail money. Wait a minute…I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark) Not in my current condition. You'd have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I'm sure there's someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)

all this talk about your son's loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.' His father scowled. 'You shouldn't ride in your condition. You could fall from a horse and lose or injure the babe you carry.' Holding Styxx's hand in hers, she paused to smile graciously at him. 'I never said anything about horse, Majesty. It's your son I intend to mount and ride. Good day.

I told you when we mated that I would gladly give you my heart, my life, and my love, but that when I did so they came with one condition. Never abuse me. Love is not abuse.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

Spondylolisthesis

It seemed logical to conclude that their painful muscle condition might also be induced by tension. Hence, the Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS). (Myo means "muscle"; Tension Myositis Syndrome is defined here as a change of state in the muscle that is painful.)

The 2010 Global Burden of Disease study of 291 conditions ranked low back pain as the highest cause of disability and sixth in terms of overall burden.

The law of faith then, in short, is for every one to believe what God requires him to believe, as a condition of the covenant he makes with him: and not to doubt of the performance of his promises.

So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.

cualquiera que sea la forma adoptada por la república, debería el poder dirigente gobernar por leyes declaradas y bien recibidas y no por dictados repentinos y resoluciones indeterminadas, porque entonces se hallarían los hombres en harto peor condición que en el estado de naturaleza

At least, when the great Temple of Jupiter had burned twenty years before, Sulla had had the good taste to restore it to its original design and condition. They don't make tyrants like Sulla anymore.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the race were most happy and most prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Above all, he seems to have taken from Socrates the notion that man's freedom depends completely on the state of our soul, not on some physical or material condition; and on our capacity to endure adversity and to be indifferent to our outward fate.