#condition

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#beautiful #born #boy #change #conditional love

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. ↗

— Walter Pater

#aspires #condition #constantly #music #towards

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#diversion #happy #make #order #our

Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#around #behind #compare #conditions #day

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#condition #elect #going #may #president

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know. ↗

— Alain Prost

#care #conditions #criticise #drove #just

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated. ↗

— Sun Ra

#call #child #condition #eliminated #every

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#conditions #how #new #perfectly #poetry