“The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.” SaidMightConditionsScenariosCiaGuessingSaid Life Author:George W. Bush
“There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.” GivingShouldSaidConditionsGiving UpIllOccasionsBargains Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.” SaidConditionsOysters Book:The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense Source: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.” SaidMatterIndividualInterestCommunityCommonConditionsDevelopmentPureSupremePursueGoodsCommon GoodIndividual Power Author:William Ernest Hocking
“You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.” IfsMenSaidStillsStatesAgeEffortConditionsPoliticianMassCriticsImprovementGrantedWelfareArroganceInferiorsBetter Than YouWelfare State Author:Ludwig von Mises
“In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.” SaidSoulBodyForceConditionsDependsProperty Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!” WellsSaidResultsExistenceConditionsProducePhilosopherQuantum Author:Richard P. Feynman
“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.” KnowsWritingWellsSaidEndsPlayWaitingConditionsNormalSummerStudiosProducersExceptionalEnd Of Summer Author:Aaron Sorkin
“A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.” KindPersonsSaidKidsConditionsCreationAdultsBeing The BestImaginativeUnconditionalConditional Author:Keanu Reeves
“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.” PeopleWantSaidIdeasPhilosophyCoursesTermGenerationsConditionsEffectsConversationSpeechEarsSurrenderDestroyingConquestUnconditionalChristmas Eve Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.” IfsTryingSaidIdeasTakenSpecialConditionsStupidCallingClaimsBackgroundsObservationIdiotSufficientInsightfulProfessorsAcademicConsistentlyFormalHomeworkQualificationsStupid ThingsCredentials Author:Paul Krugman
“We must see the face of the Lord .... There are things that God says to me that I know must take place. It doesn't matter what people say. I have been face to face with some of the most trying moments of men's lives when it meant so much to me if I kept the vision, and if I held fast to that which God had said. A man must be in an immovable condition. The voice of God must mean to him more than what he sees, feels, or what people say.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenFeelsTryingMeanHas BeensSaidMatterMomentsFacesVoiceVisionLordConditionsFace To FaceVoice Of God Author:Smith Wigglesworth
“A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.” KnowsMenWaySaidMovingVoiceWaterTalkingDoorsConditionsWallSaintComing OutSwimmerOff The Wall Author:Rumi
“Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.” ThinkingHumansLittlesSaidLyingBitsNaturalConditionsTruth IsLittle BitPainfulHuman ConditionBullshitLifeboats Author:Dustin Hoffman
“As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.” MindFirstsWellsSaidConditionsActivityDeterminationAccompanyFrame Of Mind Author:George Will
“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.” IfsMenYearsHumansKindSaidFacesTalkingTechnologyAirConditionsRevolutionHundredMen And WomenYears AgoRelationSacredConstantSensesCommunistSoberHuman HistoryParagraphTurning PointsManifestosCommunist Manifesto Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.” PeopleWayWritingSaidProblemInspirationAttentionCreativeSpecialConditionsPoetDemandMadnessConcentrationVocationCreative Writing Author:Stephen Spender
“Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out of a reality that most of us would rather ignore. How do you make art when the world is in such a state? My answer has been to make mistakes, but when I can, to choose them. We are all guilt victims choosing mistakes, and as Godard said, the very definition of the human condition is in the mise-en-scéne itself.” WorldHumansHas BeensArtSaidI CanStatesRealityAnswersMistakeConditionsVictimGuiltDefinitionsMaking MistakesHuman ConditionDilemma Author:Alfredo Jaar
“To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of atheism? That one does not mistake: that, to my mind, does not prove anything against atheism and much against religion. "The heart of a heartless world, said Marx, the soul of soulless conditions." It is misery that makes religion, and it is why this one is miserable. Who would prohibit opium to a dying man? And what are we, out of oblivion or entertainment, anything else but dying?” IfsMenWorldMindHeartChildrenDoeSaidSoulDiesSpeakParentMistakeAtheismConditionsDyingProvePraiseMiseryEntertainmentMiserableOblivionHeartlessConsoleOpiumSoullessAgainst Religion Author:Andre Comte-Sponville
“"Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought about by the State or other individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: "Shall we obey God or man?"” MenHumansSaidStatesLawSpiritIndividualGivenForceConditionsPersonalityPeterRulersDefianceHuman PersonalitySt Peter Author:Albert Lutuli
“I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.” ThinkingWaySaidStatesSeemsBlackTermUnitedUnited StatesConditionsPoetUnderstoodYalePrecarious Author:Claudia Rankine
“No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.” SaidConditionsTrumpSqualor Author:Donna Brazile