State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself… — Emile M. Cioran
I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly. — Tom Bergeron
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was… — Fareed Zakaria
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek… — Ziad K. Abdelnour
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw… — Henry David Thoreau
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and… — Alexander Graham Bell
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.… — Parker J. Palmer
As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with… — Robert Osborne
From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life… — Daniel J. Siegel
Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch. — Robert M. Sapolsky
I see a New York that is once again the empire state. — Carl Paladino
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers. — Carl Paladino
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony,… — Mike Figgis
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a… — Friedrich Schiller
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. — Carl Jung
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness. — Baltasar Gracian
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without… — Jean de la Bruyere
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap. — John W. Gardner

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