State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state…
— Julia Golding
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You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you…
— Charles de Lint
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Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet.…
— Suzanne Collins
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Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what…
— Daniel Defoe
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He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link…
— John Milton
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The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight…
— Thomas Ligotti
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I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight.…
— Alan Goldsher
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I just wish I could walk into my Senator’s office and say, “Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists…” But then…
— James Patterson
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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
— Wayne Dyer
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The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The state calls Paul Winthrop to the stand." ... Paul answered the opening questions briefly, weighing his words, his eyes on Julia's. "Would you tell…
— Nora Roberts
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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And…
— William Shakespeare
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state…
— Alexandre Dumas
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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is…
— Elizabeth Scott
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after…
— James A. Baldwin
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Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of…
— Melina Marchetta
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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts…
— John Stuart Mill
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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it…
— Albert Einstein
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There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the…
— Margo Lanagan
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...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
— Aldous Huxley
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Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE -…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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