Top 1200 Living Conditions Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.

As attorney general, I'm helping lead a national effort to protect coverage for pre-existing conditions.

In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

We have fulfilled all our agreements and all the conditions set by the IMF better than any other state.

There are only two conditions where you’re allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: it’s snowing or the death of a celebrity.

Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where I had made peace with myself of the consequences I have allowed while living in society.

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.

Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

When I was coming through as a professional wrestler, as a young man in 2003 and 2004, there really wasn't much of a wrestling scene in the U.K. to take advantage of or make a living in, so I was forced to have to go to the U.S. and kinda make a living from it out there.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

If you chose to live in a home that is living on intersecting laylines, and you're living on an Indian burial ground and having paranormal experiences that are bothersome, you're not going to get rid of them. They've taken ownership of that home and that area.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.