State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in… — Aristotle
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,… — Anna Kingsford
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this… — Benjamin Carson
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the… — B.K.S. Iyengar
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great… — Edmund Barton
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. — William Whipple
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations. — Li Peng
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty,… — Pope Clement VIII
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. — John F. Kennedy
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. — William Shakespeare
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than… — Joseph Addison
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it… — Marcel Proust
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. — Aristotle
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — Aristotle
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. — Edith Wharton
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. — Walter Scott
As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also… — Stewart Udall

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