The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!
It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.
It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
Nature alone cures. . . . what nursing has to do. . . is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.
War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become dirty. Other people, passers-by, will laugh at him, but when the boy's father sees his boy in that condition, what is he to do? Will he laugh at his own son? No! What will he do?
The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production