State Quotes
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
Tags: Busy, Curious ✍ Author: Isabelle AdjaniNo religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Tags: Church, Religion ✍ Author: Felix AdlerIn his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Tags: Individual, Time ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoAn emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Tags: Hand, Society ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoBe assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Tags: Democracy, Laws ✍ Author: Sade AduAnd the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
Tags: General, Plan ✍ Author: Giovanni AgnelliI think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
Tags: Listening, Mind ✍ Author: Christina AguileraA constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
✍ Author: Maya AngelouInferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Tags: May, Mind ✍ Author: Maya AngelouThe young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Tags: Resembling, Young ✍ Author: Maya AngelouThe state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Tags: Good, Life ✍ Author: Maya AngelouTo flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Tags: Others, Turn ✍ Author: Jane AustenNever do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Tags: Against, Conscience ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinIf the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Tags: Another, Political ✍ Author: Ronald ReaganEvery citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Tags: Free, Soldier ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Tags: Free, Nation ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonThat the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
Tags: Country, Knowledge ✍ Author: Charles BabbageHaving been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.
Tags: Getting, Others ✍ Author: Michelle BacheletIn today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
Tags: Alone, Today ✍ Author: Michelle BacheletWe have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
Tags: Sure, Women ✍ Author: Michelle BacheletI was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.
Tags: Here, Until ✍ Author: Michele BachmannThe rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.
Tags: Free, Happy ✍ Author: Spencer BachusVisit partners pages
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.
Tags: Death, System ✍ Author: Louis BaconIn every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
Tags: Best, Others ✍ Author: Walter BagehotThere is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.
Tags: Body, Support ✍ Author: Gamaliel BaileyIf there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Tags: Slavery, Turn ✍ Author: Mikhail BakuninWhere the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Tags: Individual, Liberty ✍ Author: Mikhail BakuninWithout a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
Tags: Church, Loyalty ✍ Author: Emily Greene BalchExcellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
Tags: Education, Treat ✍ Author: John BaldacciMost of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
Tags: Born, Changes ✍ Author: James A. BaldwinA man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Tags: Power, True ✍ Author: Henry Ward BeecherThe advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Tags: Knowledge, Respect ✍ Author: Henry Ward BeecherAmnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Tags: Expensive, Punish ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceAlien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
Tags: Alien, American ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Tags: Place, Religion ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceMarriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Tags: Making, Marriage ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Tags: Change, Means ✍ Author: Edmund BurkeMan is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Tags: Animal, Laughs ✍ Author: Samuel ButlerA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Tags: May, Thousand ✍ Author: Lord ByronA city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
Tags: May, Mind ✍ Author: Herb CaenEven when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.
Tags: Attention, Positive ✍ Author: Jonathan CainI contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
Tags: Justice, Time ✍ Author: Thomas CampionAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Tags: Modern, Power ✍ Author: Albert CamusWe have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.
Tags: Level, Plan ✍ Author: Eric CantorEverybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.
Tags: Give, Saying ✍ Author: Maria CantwellWe now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Tags: Chance, Left ✍ Author: Arthur CapperFrom that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Tags: Feeling, Older ✍ Author: Henry Charles CareyWhat nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Tags: Generation, Valuable ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillDeath is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Tags: Death, Human ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillIn my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.
Tags: Both, Service ✍ Author: Mario Diaz-BalartI had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.
Tags: Chance, Put ✍ Author: Steve DainesAnd then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.
Tags: History, Time ✍ Author: Richard M. DaleyI think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.
Tags: Problems, Serious ✍ Author: Richard M. DaleyOr even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.
Tags: Children, Hope ✍ Author: Edwidge DanticatI have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.
Tags: Everyday, Keep ✍ Author: Grace DarlingI've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
Tags: Homeland, Language ✍ Author: Mahmoud DarwishI don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Tags: Anyone, Emotional ✍ Author: Larry DavidMy name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
Tags: Country, Freedom ✍ Author: Angela DavisThe repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
Tags: Language, Progress ✍ Author: Artur DavisA state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Tags: Few, Laws ✍ Author: Rene DescartesThe health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Tags: Happiness, Health ✍ Author: Benjamin DisraeliYou can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Tags: Life, Music ✍ Author: Bob DylanWe must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
Tags: Family, Remember ✍ Author: Michael F. EasleyEvery body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Tags: Body, Rest ✍ Author: Arthur EddingtonI want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
Tags: Here, Integrity ✍ Author: Charles EdisonBosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Tags: Democracy, True ✍ Author: Charles EdisonI was married for a little while. I chose to be married. Then I chose not to be. But in the state of Maryland, I could... That should be the case for all Marylanders.
Tags: Married, While ✍ Author: Donna EdwardsI do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.
Tags: Early, Total ✍ Author: Elizabeth EdwardsTruth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
Tags: Greatest, Truth ✍ Author: Kurt EisnerEvery actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Tags: Good, Men ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Tags: Pay, Said ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Tags: Nature, Permanent ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonFate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Tags: Deeds, Fate ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonI started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.
Tags: Business, High ✍ Author: Mary FallinFor me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.
Tags: Hear, Unless ✍ Author: Morton FeldmanMetrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
Tags: Free, Mad ✍ Author: James FentonIn every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Tags: Few, Rights ✍ Author: Adam FergusonAfter closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Tags: After, Conscience ✍ Author: Lion FeuchtwangerI am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Tags: Father, Prison ✍ Author: W. C. FieldsSurely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
Tags: Mind, Sound ✍ Author: E. M. ForsterI don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
Tags: Natural, Stuff ✍ Author: Michael J. FoxChallenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Tags: Human, Life ✍ Author: Viktor E. FranklA belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Tags: Act, Violence ✍ Author: Sigmund FreudI cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
Tags: Cannot, Idiots ✍ Author: Hans-Georg GadamerThere is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
Tags: Democracy, Whole ✍ Author: Hans-Georg GadamerI do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.
Tags: Actor, Order ✍ Author: Sarah GadonUnbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.
Tags: American, Life ✍ Author: Frank GaffneyThe State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.
Tags: Big, Service ✍ Author: Evan G. GalbraithYou will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Tags: Big, Small ✍ Author: John Kenneth GalbraithIt would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Tags: Good, Government ✍ Author: John Kenneth GalbraithTo imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
Tags: Faith, Moral ✍ Author: Liam GallagherOregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
Tags: Oregon, Union ✍ Author: Liam GallagherIt's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
Tags: Records, Sad ✍ Author: Noel GallagherFaith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Tags: Faith, Grow ✍ Author: Mahatma GandhiRecently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
Tags: Sign, Though ✍ Author: Peter GarrettI always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
Tags: Individual, Side ✍ Author: Jim GarrisonI read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
Tags: Read, True ✍ Author: Robert M. GatesThe Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.
Tags: Quiet, Rich ✍ Author: Gordon GeeThe state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
Tags: Danger, Evidence ✍ Author: Jurgen Habermas