State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time… — Hunter S. Thompson
Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. — Richard M. Nixon
So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long… — Derrick Jensen
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One… — Haruki Murakami
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a… — Willa Cather
Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every… — Jordan Sonnenblick
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many. — Carson McCullers
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is… — Gregory Maguire
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is a state of activity. — Aristotle
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle… — A.A. Attanasio
Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see… — Clive Barker
Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I… — Ruth Graham
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be… — Samuel Adams
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with… — John Stuart Mill
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be… — James Madison
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to… — Eckhart Tolle
Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting… — Susanna Kaysen
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. — William Shakespeare
There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open… — Elliot Perlman
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov

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