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Quotes About Condition

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.
~ Denise Levertov
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
hip looked dislocated.
~ Susan May
but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
~ Susanna Tamaro
condition of the coal mines. A squad of Peacekeepers checking for returning refugees.
~ Suzanne Collins
make that a condition of being the Mockingjay." "That I can feed you turnips?" he says. "No, that we can hunt." That gets
~ Suzanne Collins
Hey, maybe I should make that a condition of being the Mockingjay.
~ Suzanne Collins
Marx here saw all production up to that point as alienated. Alienation did not begin with capitalism, or even with feudalism. It has been the companion of humanity ever since the beginning. He did not, as is often asserted, have any notion of an Edenic primitive condition.
~ Sven-Eric Liedman
I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
Resignation was the defining condition of Soviet life.
~ Masha Gessen
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Only Love That Stands Tall In All Condition Is The Unconditional One.
~ Shekhar Mishra
I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.
~ Rickson Gracie
The fact that you survived is a condition that may weaken your interpretation of the properties of the survival, including the shallow notion of "cause.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was calculated that actors who win an Oscar tend to live on average about five years longer than their peers who don't. People live longer in societies that have flatter social gradients. Winners kill their peers as those in a steep social gradient live shorter lives, regardless of their economic condition.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Miserable!" exclaimed Rappaccini. "What mean you, foolish girl? Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts against which no power nor strength could avail an enemy—misery, to be able to quell the mightiest with a breath—misery, to be as terrible as thou art beautiful? Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
So, if you're asking me if it's possible for you to make errors in judgement, the answer is yes. You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition - and it is something I deeply love about humankind.
~ Neal Shusterman
You make errors all the time...as does every other human being ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition- and it is something I deeply love about humankind.
~ Neal Shusterman
You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition.
~ Neal Shusterman
man's bodily condition depends on his state of mind. No two persons the same age are in exactly the same bodily condition. This shows that years do not make man young or old. "For as he thinketh within himself, so is he" (Prov. 23:7).
~ Charles Fillmore
I FINALLY had a hot night, but it was only the weather.
~ Chocolate Waters