State Quotes · Page 28

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

— Irving Penn

Volunteering is as Iowan as pork chop on a stick at the State Fair.

— Kim Reynolds

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we are to change violent criminal acts across our state, we must work together.

— Mike Parson

We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting.

— Jim Davis

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

— Yair Lapid

I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.

— Megyn Kelly

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in…

— Gloria Steinem

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There…

— Walid Jumblatt

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these…

— James Inhofe

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be…

— John Mackey

In fact, if any state wants to spend any money to do better at helping mother earth out. I'm okay with that…

— Mike Braun

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

— Jeanne Shaheen

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

— Kate Bush

Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate…

— Dawn Foster

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical…

— Pallam Raju

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would…

— Lysander Spooner

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count.…

— Rick Perlstein

“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome…

— Kamand Kojouri

In the New York State Assembly, I served on committees that oversaw the MTA and Port Authority of New York and New…

— Nicole Malliotakis

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going…

— George Smathers

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a…

— Elliott Abrams

It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest.

— Scott Bessent

I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.

— Ted Lieu

State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.

— Dominic Raab

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

— Richard E. Grant

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

— Kathy Szeliga

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

— Ignazio Silone

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

— Hillary Clinton

The state of Tennessee is where I started off my MMA career.

— Ovince Saint Preux

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

— Beppe Grillo

The State of Israel is the strongest in the region and will remain so.

— Benny Gantz

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

— John Lewis

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

— Reuven Rivlin

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

— William Allen Butler

The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment.

— Robert Rinder