States Quotes · Page 97

Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

— Darryl Anka

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

— Arthur Brisbane

I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely.

— Jonathan Frid

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

— Bill Vaughan

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

— Orrin Woodward

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

— Bret Stephens

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are…

— Sylvia Earle

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

— Mitt Romney

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

— Craig Kilborn

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

— Bobby Fischer

While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates.

— Martin Harris

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind

— Roy Keane

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having…

— Rachel Carson

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to…

— Ramana Maharshi

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact…

— Henry Giroux

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it…

— George Packer

I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from…

— Gary Johnson

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed…

— Janet Napolitano

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from…

— Alexander Pope

Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians…

— Bill Maher

In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry…

— Deepak Chopra

Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are…

— Anonymous

The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do…

— Rush Limbaugh

In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by…

— Pope Pius XI

Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous…

— Mary Church Terrell

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense…

— Dwight Macdonald

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities…

— William Z. Foster

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

— Roger Mahony

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

— W. A. Criswell

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

— Nelson Mandela

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

— Isabel Allende

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

— Eckhart Tolle

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.

— Chris Rock

Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

— Danielle LaPorte

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

— Charles Dickens