Top 1200 Living Conditions Quotes & Sayings

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.

I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor. Seeing that kind of abject poverty firsthand during my travels deeply shaped my life. Seeing those living conditions motivated me to want to tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.

Since I was a child, I was always wondering why people were living in such conditions while enormous lands were empty.

The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

I developed the armed forces, especially in a way that improved living and working conditions. My record is there.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

Our Party maintains the improvement of the people's living conditions as the most important of the numerous state affairs.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn't see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn't sit well with my conscience.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.