#condition

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#conflict #drama #fascinating #human #human condition

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. ↗

— John Calvin

#blessings #committed #condition #deposits #dispensed

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#any #cases #conditions #enough #guide

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#conditions #empathy #get #great #i

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#condition #constitution #covenant #dreams #every

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive. ↗

— Robin Cook

#conditions #could #gave #international #iraq

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#against #always #been #conditions #factor

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#black #come #conditions #cultural #exploitation

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#believe #chicago #conditions #could #europe