State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose… — Carl Jung
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the… — Quentin Crisp
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the… — David Bowie
As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest. — Chris Kilham
If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping… — David Jeremiah
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. — Unknown Author
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his… — Plutarch
The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular… — William Crookes
You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to… — Vincent de Paul
We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus]… — Vincent de Paul
You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment… — Vincent de Paul
[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything… — Vincent de Paul
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to… — Vincent de Paul
Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur. — Vincent de Paul
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of… — Edward Gibbon
Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen,… — Lettie Cowman
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior… — Benjamin Hoff
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;… — Samuel Johnson
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community… — B.F. Skinner
All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful… — Winston Churchill
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace — Marie Curie

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