Condition Quotes - page 51

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. (Alexander Pope)
The Transhumanist Party aims to motivate and mobilize both female and male scientists and engineers to take on additional responsibilities as rational politicians. It does not mean replacing democracy with technocracy. It means that our government needs help in making the right policies and investing in science, health, and technology for the improvement of the human condition and the long-term survival of the human race. View quote
Newton Lee
In a sense, both the power grid and communications have suffered from their own respective successes – the electric power grid tends to be taken for granted and communication networks are assumed to work perfectly under almost any condition and for any application...the manner in which they are integrated will have far-reaching consequences. View quote
Stephen F Bush
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition. View quote
Ian Hislop
We are indebted for all our miseries to our distrust of that guide, which Providence thought sufficient for our condition, our own natural reason, which rejecting both in human and Divine things, we have given our necks to the yoke of political and theological slavery. We have renounced the prerogative of man, and it is no wonder that we should be treated like beasts. View quote
Edmund Burke
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
I design to speak of the Physical, Metaphysical and Mathematical - of the Material and Spiritual Universe: - of its Essence, its Origin, its Creation, its Present Condition and its Destiny. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. View quote
Pliny the Younger
It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and repose; since I have known in fine, that indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing, and being nothing. View quote
Pliny the Younger
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky. View quote
Sarah Jessica Parker
New Zealand interviewer: What's it like for you guys, has it been "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll", that stuff? Josh: Six drugs? There's been more than that! [All laugh] Josh: I need to hear that question again, I'm sorry. Dave Grohl: Why? That was the best answer you could possibly have given! [Laughter continues] Josh: I wake up in the middle of stuff, sometimes. 'Cause of my condition, y'know. New Zealand interviewer: Which is? Josh: I'm a badass. (Josh Homme)
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. View quote
Colin Farrell
I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. View quote
John Malkovich
To remember the ever present Divine at all times, even while acting in the world, is the most positive practice for a seeker who is striving to evolve. He will thereby transform his inner personality from its present condition, to a state of harmony and efficiency. View quote
Chinmayananda Saraswati
When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely "troubled." At last, I thought, an admission. But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition. View quote
Kate Clinton
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path. View quote
Jeff Bridges
The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ. View quote
John Flavel
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. View quote
Stephen Hawking
One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition. (Stephen Hawking)
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing? But nobody says this. The self-appointed unqualified nurse says: "You are to sing the patient a song which will make him believe that I, and I alone, can cure him. If you can't or won't, I shall confiscate your passport and send you to the mines." View quote
W. H. Auden
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. View quote
Robert Owen
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all. View quote
Raymond Chandler
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. View quote
Norman Mailer