State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking…
— Don DeLillo
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i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway…
— Maureen Johnson
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Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her…
— Vasily Grossman
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I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The…
— Jonathan Kozol
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To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
— Josh Lanyon
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Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention…
— Lynn Barber
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Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning…
— Nikki Gemmell
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When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
— Euripides
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they…
— Aristophanes
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Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do…
— Jonathan Ames
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This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme;…
— William Shakespeare
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I…
— Victor Hugo
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming,…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss…
— Libba Bray
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Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd probably think the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
— Christopher Hitchens
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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Lord Maccon believed that if his trousers were on his legs, and something else was on his torso, he was dressed. The less done after…
— Gail Carriger
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It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be…
— Nhat Hanh
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Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and…
— Paul Auster
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The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly…
— Eckhart Tolle
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