Quotes About Condition

human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition

Zardari mentioned that once, his presidential plane wasn't airworthy and he had an urgent trip to make. "The only person I could call was I.S.I. And I said, 'Ahmed, I'm going to ask for your airplane, but only on one condition, which is that you have to fly with me.

All that is needed now in the post-truth condition is for a third party – a Lippmann 2.0 – to establish a new baseline of truth-telling against which the New York Times' own biases come into open view.

I was beginning to wonder if this guy was capable of saying anything that didn't sound like a creepy innuendo. Maybe it was a rare medical condition and he just couldn't help himself, like Tourette's but sexual. Pervmo Syndrome.

Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a subtle but significant difference, recognizing the person before the condition.

Courage is a learned mental skill that you must condition, just as weight training strengthens your muscles.

If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

At an early age, it seems to be a part of the human condition to rebel against some type of authority as our perceptions of the world change with experience.

La foiblesse de nostre condition, fait que les choses en leur simplicité et pureté naturelle ne puissent pas tomber en nostre usage... Nostre extreme volupté a quelque air de gemissement, et de plainte.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

When people ask why I go on my travels I usually reply that I know what I am escaping from but not what I am looking for. If they tell me that there may be just as little soundness among foreigners and that their morals may be no better than ours, I reply: first that would not be easy: Our wickedness has assumed many faces. Secondly, there is always gain in changing a bad condition for an uncertain one, and that the ills of others do not need to sting us as our own do.

could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.

My previous notes must sound somewhat hysterical. In fact there is nothing particularly unusual or alarming about my condition. It does not in the least affect my capacity to work.

She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

History only suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

I think what it is a condition of human - of love. How important that is and integral that is too everybody even a ghost.

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.