Conditions Quotes - Page 18

I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.

Carl Albert

Philosophy, Issues, Political

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The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Horse, Memories, Real

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.194, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

T. D. Jakes

Encouraging, Past, Progress

Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

Cliff Stearns

Retirement, Long, Generations

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We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

Leonard Boswell

Retirement, Safe, Able

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It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

Louis Thomas McFadden

Mathematical Equations, Work Out, Historical

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Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Carlos P. Romulo

Brother, Men, Survival

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear, War, Men

Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Edward Gibbon

Men, Names, Race

1776-88 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Lawrence Hargrave

Wind, Sea, Bird

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At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Naomi Wolf

Self Esteem, Body, Aging

Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.

Warwick Fox

Greek, Maintenance, Earth

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Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

Colin Fletcher

Sky, Energy, Weight

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And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

Ernest K. Gann

Clouds, Sky, Feet

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We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.

Sam Keen

Animal, Forever, Heaven

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We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual existence beyond the grave, is a declaration that there must have been an individual, intelligent creation before we came here in the flesh. Life beyond the grave postulates a pre-existent state.

James E. Talmage

Life, Men, Intelligent

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But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere - at all ages and in all conditions of life.

John W. Gardner

Life, Believe, Passion

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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

Simone de Beauvoir

Individuality, Talent, Social

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Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

Paulo Coelho

Life, Inspiration, Approval

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I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

Derren Brown

Testers

"Derren Brown: Mind Control". TV Series, 2002-2003.

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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

Langston Hughes

America, Kind, Humans

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Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

Frederick Douglass

Mean, Men, Self

"Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn".

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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Fernando Pessoa

Men, World, Absence

"A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the social revolution. It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers by which it is constantly being threatened. One is the loss of its mass character; the other, the abandonment of its goal. One is the danger of sinking back to the condition of a sect; the other, the danger of becoming a movement of bourgeois social reform.

Rosa Luxemburg

Struggle, Character, Loss

"The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?".

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As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

Charles Darwin

Strong, Struggle, Principles

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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