State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4102 authors
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Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.
— Daniel Handler
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The state was made for man, not man for state.
— Albert Einstein
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He came third in the state for woodwork,†Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
— Melina Marchetta
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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going…
— Timothy Leary
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In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think…
— Assata Shakur
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A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith;…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
— Emma Goldman
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Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or…
— James A. Garfield
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
— Charles Bukowski
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I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If…
— John Kennedy Toole
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[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It…
— Amitav Ghosh
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So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if…
— Erin Morgenstern
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All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
— Carrie Vaughn
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In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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