State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4102 authors
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
— Anais Nin
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What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your…
— Haruki Murakami
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less…
— Judith Butler
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Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral…
— Garth Stein
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Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity…
— Walter Mosley
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Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state
— Robert E. Lee
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Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
— Cecelia Ahern
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Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better…
— Og Mandino
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Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But…
— Ronald Reagan
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If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state…
— Christopher Moore
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Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught…
— Ally Carter
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If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality…
— Pema Chodron
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Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
— Sylvia Plath
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Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and…
— Darren Shan
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Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
— Paula McLain
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Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the…
— Jerry Bridges
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Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way…
— Terry Pratchett
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
— Gaston Bachelard
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