State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have… — Thomas Paine
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,… — Leo Tolstoy
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.… — Annie Dillard
Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected… — David Wojnarowicz
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country,… — Betty Smith
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula,… — Charles Bukowski
The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is… — Utah Phillips
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — Wystan Hugh Auden
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain. — Rodman Philbrick
My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can… — Eric Clapton
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served… — Sandra Day O'Connor
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of… — Robert Kennedy
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s… — Ana Castillo
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen
We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy… — Anne Rice
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state… — Libba Bray
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion… — Baruch Spinoza

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