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Quotes About Conditions

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.
~ Ernest Hemingway
US employment and income growth are now much more influenced by global conditions than in the past. Under these new circumstances, a distinction between domestic and foreign policy is analytically unproductive. For example, it risks categorizing movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) as originating from domestic conditions rather than their interaction with global processes. p 4
~ Andrew Rojecki
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
~ Andrew Weil
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
~ Andy Rooney
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place." - Angela Carter (1940-1992)
~ Angela Carter
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~ Angela Carter
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.
~ Ann Bridge
The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.
~ Matt Cassel
I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Your environment affects you wherever you are.
~ David Mitchell
When you got mechanisms in a car that prevent damage from happening to the engine and that operate under very specific circumstances, those things are exceptions under normal operating conditions of the car; under the rules, they need to be disclosed.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I prefer exiting from projects that don't meet certain conditions, which primarily have to do with the script. When I'm disturbed, I can't act. I'm no use as a non-actor, right?
~ Vishnu Vishal
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
~ Sally Mann
In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.
~ Rose George
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
In 2007, as a condition for hosting the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government removed restrictions barring Beijing-based journalists from leaving the capital without prior written permission.
~ Evan Osnos
One of the main priorities of Russia's economic policy is to create conditions and form our own financial resources for economic modernisation.
~ Elvira Nabiullina
I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.
~ Richard Linklater
Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.
~ Hilary Benn
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.
~ Michael Haneke
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
~ Bill Gates
Kids are a product of their environment.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa