Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
I came to love silence, because it’s so rare, and it’s now my favorite aural condition.
In football, physical condition is very important, but the head is the most important thing. If you don’t have the head, if the mentality is not good, then you are in trouble.
The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It’s never about the actor. It’s about the content. That’s what I strive for in my work.
The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
When you’re just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.
Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you’ve come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that’s the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition – that of international anarchy.
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
I’ve never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don’t meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic – in every one of these places.
I’m very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It’s what’s not on the page that I get excited about.
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
People out there with pre-existing conditions, they are worried. Are they going to have the guarantee of coverage if they have a pre-existing condition or if they live in a state where the governor decides that’s not a part of the health care, or that the prices are going to go up? That’s the worry.
The eye condition that I have is Marfan’s Syndrome.
I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.
I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, ‘healed’ represents a condition of one’s life; ‘cured’ relates strictly to one’s physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.
For me, announcing wasn’t the ideal working condition.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I’ll be doing next – or even if I’m going to work.
My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It’s always been difficult for me to write from an abstract idea, no matter how interesting or compelling I feel the idea might be.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
I’m very much a typical midwesterner, and I don’t think the condition is curable.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn’t, it was a thyroid condition.
When you are young, it’s deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There’s almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
I am a gypsy, in a way. It’s a condition of my profession.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
I just think the more we’re observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist’s right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist’s prerogative and it is guaranteed.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
The only chance I have to be successful is if I’m in better condition than the other guy.
Women’s empowerment for me means knowing your rights, having the facts, knowing the truth about what is happening out there, here in our own country and the condition of women throughout the world.
With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
