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.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
Everyone has a button for sadness and a button for happiness, your condition depends on which one you push the most.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
