Quotes of: Condition Keyword

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt sui...

Veronika Decides to Die

Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through life, an actor in a Leave it to Beaver episode, determined to disguise all clues of my real condition until... well, until I c...

Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

Grandma Donna passed the oyster stuffing and asked my father straight out what he was working on, it being so obvious his thoughts were not with us. She meant it as a reprimand. He was the only one at the table who didn't know this, or else he was ig...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction ...

Noam Chomsky

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Eckhart Tolle

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

Odd Apocalypse

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

The Long Goodbye

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

Travels With Myself

We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference.

Andrew O'Hagan

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

Joseph Murray

I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Robin S. Sharma

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Pauline Hanson

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

Sir Ken Robinson

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Kailash Satyarthi