Quotes About Condition

It is worth noting the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political thought, astute and pragmatic, unafraid of experiment, and—this is significant—"convinced of man's power to improve his condition through the use of intelligence.

The human foot is commonly subjected to grotesque tortures that deform it and make it rickety. In an imbecilic way it is doomed to corns, calluses, and bunions.

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

I started playing chess in the Eighties, but it is only recently that people have begun to appreciate the importance of physical exercise for chess players. You really need to be in good condition to be able to sit for four to six hours and still maintain your concentration.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.

I have osteoarthritis so bad... I can walk up a hill; I just can't walk down one.

So long as we have nothing to say to God, nothing to do with Him, save in the sunshine of the mind when we feel Him near us, we are poor creatures, willed upon, not willing…. And how in such a condition do we generally act? Do we sit mourning over the loss of feeling? Or worse, make frantic efforts to rouse them?

Never seeking true or high things, caring only for appearances, and, therefore, for inventions, he had left his imagination all undeveloped, and when it represented his own inner condition to him, had repressed it until it was nearly destroyed, and what remained of it was set on fire of hell.

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

and suddenly, without the slightest volition on my part, there was the most crashing discharge of wind, like the report of a mortar. My horse started; Cardigan jumped in his saddle, glaring at me.....Be Silent! snaps he, and he must have been in a highly nervous condition himself, otherwise he would never have added, in a hoarse whipser: Can you not contain yourself, you disgusting fellow?--Flashman at the start of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

posições, então a condição mental predominante deverá ser

Como pode chamar a si mesmo um homem livre, quando sua própria fraqueza o trouxe à condição em que se acha? Se um homem tem dentro de si a alma de um escravo, não é exatamente nisso que se transforma, não obstante seu nascimento, assim como a água procura o seu nível?

We were as we were! the bass lisper barked. How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time , and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment .

De qué otra forma puede explicarse la interminable secuencia de desastres, sufrimiento gratuito, desolación pública y privada que caracteriza a la condición humana?

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Dans l'ordre du normatif, le commencement c'est l'infraction. [...] La condition de possibilité des règles ne fait qu'un avec la condition de possibilité de l'expérience des règles. L'expérience des règles c'est la mise à l'épreuve, dans une situation d'irrégularité, de la fonction régulatrice des règles.

Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone.

Having sport allowed me to forget about the ups and downs of my condition and think about a set goal, which was to become a Paralympic champion, to become a world champion.

'The Human Condition' is me exploring some ideas and thoughts that I have that don't fit one sound. I'm giving emotions a sound - it's a fusion of genres. There are four EPs in 'The Human Condition'; each title is a different emotion.

Because the Arnold Classic is such a big show, a guy who hasn't been getting a lot of recognition all of a sudden does that show and arrives in good condition and is able to take out some of the top guys, it then puts him up there in the running for the Olympia title. So he can get more recognition that way.

I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.