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Quotes About Condition

If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054.
~ Jasper Fforde
Male guilt avoidance syndrome," explained my father. "It's a recognized medical condition by 2054.
~ Jasper Fforde
hypertension with systolic pressures above 140 or diastolic
~ Unknown
los únicos males que teme son el dolor y el hambre. Digo el dolor y no la muerte, pues el animal nunca sabrá qué cosa es morir; el conocimiento de la muerte y de sus terrores es una de las primeras adquisiciones hechas por el hombre al apartarse de su condición animal.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Society demands that he limit himself to his function… There are indeed many precautions to imprison a man in what he is as if we lived in perpetual fear that he might escape from it, that he might break away and suddenly elude his condition.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What men have in common is not a nature but a condition, that is, an ensemble of limits and restrictions: the inevitability of death, the necessity of working for a living, of living in a world already inhabited by other men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.
~ Unknown
Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.
~ Joseph Monninger
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.
~ Sam Elliott
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
The more I'm in the public eye and I get opportunities to speak out about the condition the better. So many people don't understand the condition, they don't understand the struggles we have to deal with.
~ Kadeena Cox
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
~ Tony Judt
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?
~ Lynn Westmoreland
Motorsport gave me a purpose. It gave me a reason to overcome my condition.
~ Nicolas Hamilton
Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
~ Tom DeMarco
If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
~ Tom Watson
This hour of the evening with a little infinity inside, like an amnesty from the interminable condition of being oneself.
~ Tony Hoagland
THE EVERLASTING SELF Comes in from a downpour Shaking water in every direction — A collaborative condition: Gathered, shed, spread, then Forgotten, reabsorbed. Like love From a lifetime ago, and mud A dog has tracked across the floor.
~ Tracy K. Smith