State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4102 authors
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Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.
— Sarah MacLean
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State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson…
— Noam Chomsky
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But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Wow.A sylph.I think that's the first confirmed contact ever!" I raised my hand. "Umm,hello? Girl who was kidnapped by said sylph? Anyone want to fill…
— Kiersten White
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A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown…
— Tom Robbins
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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I…
— Ellis Peters
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Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a…
— Maureen Johnson
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For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
— Susan Hill
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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience…
— Nick Hornby
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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
— Rachel Caine
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Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of…
— Deepak Chopra
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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in…
— Eckhart Tolle
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These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else…
— Mark Bowden
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Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
— Yukio Mishima
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There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as…
— David Rakoff
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She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on…
— Charles Frazier
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