State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally… — Harry S. Truman
...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell… — Bernhard Schlink
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber… — Fernando Pessoa
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. — Paul Tillich
War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else.… — Steven Erikson
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should… — George Orwell
But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have… — Glenn Beck
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty… — Scott Lynch
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions — Marcel Proust
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen
To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I… — C.S. Lewis
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have… — Kurt Vonnegut
Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street… — Naomi Klein
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably… — Joe Bageant
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of… — Alyson Noel
There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. — Alice Sebold
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held… — Unknown Author
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in… — Guy Debord
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer

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