“Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.” HappensUsedConditionsDoctorsThings HappenInjuryMidstPatchesVets Author:Jane Smiley
“Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .” PeopleKnowsCountryUsedFightingConditionsPlanetsSlaverySlaveTechniqueBoundariesConvinceDictatorAdages Book:The Jewels of Aptor Source: The Jewels of Aptor
“Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.” EndsStatesUsedLiteratureProcessWifeConditionsAffairMy WifeChaptersAlarms Author:Fred Saberhagen
“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.” FeelsSelfUseFeelingsDreamLightWantedSuccessUsedDesireHouseLeftSidesImaginationSpaceConditionsMetsEmptyFinalsHungerUsed To BeUselessFulfillmentAddressesWoeAbidingEmpty SpaceOld SelfAmputationDream House Author:Laurie Colwin
“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.” ChildrenUsedMotherMiddleConditionsReverseNegotiatingMiddle Child Author:Leeza Gibbons
“If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.” IfsMenAgeChristianUsedPowerfulLaughingVirtueConditionsPrideWeaponsDevilOvercomingDearAll TimePreservesPurityAcquireRejectsMost PowerfulLegionRosaryPowerful WeaponsHoly RosaryPraying The Rosary Author:Pope Pius XI
“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.” WorldShouldFirstsHumansImportantStatesAmericaUsedIndividualForceGrowthAbilityUnitedLibertyClassUnited StatesRightsConditionsMilitaryUnderstoodHuman RightsCurrentsProsperitySecureNeglectAssetsStabilityPromotionEntrepreneurialArmed ForcesIndividual LibertyMilitary PowerGlobal Peace Author:Condoleezza Rice
“My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.” FirstsStoriesUsedDesireNamesHeardShareConditionsShapesGood StoryIsaac Author:Bruce Feiler
“I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.” IfsThinkingLastsUsedAnimalMarriageCasesConditionsObjectsMinesBlessingLaborHuntingCrownsFoxesTornHuntersObligedDisillusionmentUnheardHounds Author:Sarah Fielding
“The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.” WellsLooksMadeWarDoneUsedSoundImpossibleConditionsNew YorkMonthsHeroLettersDoctorsBillsClintonPresidentialCandidatesVietnamNew York TimesDeanSkiingPresidential CandidateWar Hero Author:Jay Leno
“If l give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative, maybe you will want to work more.” IfsKnowsWantGivingFeelsLittlesBeautifulUsedBitsCreativeGreaterConditionsLittle BitProfitAbout YourselfBeautiful Places Author:Brunello Cucinelli
“We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.” IfsYearsWellsMayWarUsedForceFeltPowerEconomyModernConditionsEffectsEconomicsArgumentTreatsConstitutionCongressWoundsOur SocietyAmendmentsEffects Of War Author:William O. Douglas
“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.” IfsMenNeedsKindHandsLawUsedGivenRightsConditionsHe ManDevelopmentHonorEqualLaborHarmonyProfitProtectionFacultyWomens RightsSelect Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.” PeopleTryingHardUsedWhiteConditionsDangerousHard WorkCitizensOrganizationStrategyWorkersCriminalsVulnerableReformArrangementsConformNormConstituentsHard Worker Author:Dean Spade
“I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.” WayGovernmentUsedTermClearConditionsInstitutionsFundFundingTaxpayersAustralianDepositsWholesale Author:Julie Bishop
“My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.” HumansHappensUsedHumanityBeliefLeftMy OwnConditionsGayUsed To BeAppropriateMinoritiesHuman ConditionDefectsAnalogiesBeing Gay Author:James Alison
“I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.” ThinkingWellsTodayUsedConditionsKeysFaster Author:Marion Bartoli
“To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.” KnowsWantWritingCharacterUsedNovelConditionsMetaphorInsightWhat You WantEludeOpaqueElude You Author:Norman Mailer
“I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.” WantTryingSchoolUsedSpeakSilenceConditionsWillingTruth IsPrisonCriticsInvisibleAdministrationBarackTelling The TruthHood Author:Cornel West