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Quotes About Condition

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.
~ Richard Jefferies
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
~ Hussein of Jordan
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
~ Saint Basil
There are other countries that if you had a preexisting condition, and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem, some countries are recording as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.
~ Deborah Birx
The human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.
~ Unknown
There's no real alternative to what there is.
~ Louis Auchincloss
The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by "outer" methods and that we must go within to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will go back to nothing.
~ Louise L. Hay
I am willing to release the pattern within me that is creating this condition.
~ Louise L. Hay
When we want to change a condition, we need to say so. "I am willing to release the pattern within me that is creating this condition." You can say this to yourself over and over every time you think of your illness or problem. The minute you say it, you are stepping out of the victim class. You are no longer helpless; you are acknowledging your own power.
~ Louise L. Hay
I am in the prime of my womanhood, nunga-nungas poised and trembling (attractively). Lips puckered up and in peak condition for a snogging fest.
~ Louise Rennison
Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.
~ Ludwig von Mises
the root of the opposition to liberalism cannot be reached by resort to the method of reason. This opposition does not stem from reason, but from a pathological mental attitude, from resentment and from a neurasthenic condition that one might call a Fourier complex, after the French socialist of that name
~ Ludwig von Mises
It is true that under the wages system the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure. That man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct.
~ Ludwig von Mises
According to the Marxist conception, one's social condition determines one's way of thought. His membership of a social class decides what views a writer will express.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Jacob's concept: The concept of Asperger's is like a flavoring added to a person and although my concentration is higher than those of others, if tested everyone would have traces of this condition too.
~ Jodi Picoult
To live was always a conditional verb.
~ Jodi Picoult
if the only love you had ever known was conditional, so was the absence of it.
~ Jodi Picoult
In the middle 1800s, North American doctors frequently diagnosed their patients with a condition they labeled "neurasthenia." It was a catch-all term that described occasional fatigue, insomnia, depression, and achy muscles — in other words, the symptoms of life.
~ Joe Schwarcz
One way or another, no matter which theory of our journey is correct, it's myself I address; to whom I rehearse as to a stranger our history and condition, and will disclose my secret hope though I sink for it.
~ John Barth
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
~ John Berryman
Trials and testings locate a person. In other words, they determine your spiritual position. They reveal the true condition of your heart.
~ John Bevere
but yet I was bound in the wings of the temptation, and the wind would carry me away.  I thought also of Saul, and of the evil spirit that did possess him: and did greatly fear that my condition was the same with that of his.  1 Sam. x.
~ John Bunyan
Contentment is taking your present situation—whatever obstacles you are facing, whatever limitation you are living with, whatever chronic condition wears you down, whatever has smashed your dreams, whatever factors and circumstances in life tend to push you under—and admitting you don't like it but never saying, "I can't cope with it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~ Octavio Paz