State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
— Susan Hill
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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience…
— Nick Hornby
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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
— Rachel Caine
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Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of…
— Deepak Chopra
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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in…
— Eckhart Tolle
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These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else…
— Mark Bowden
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Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
— Yukio Mishima
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There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as…
— David Rakoff
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She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on…
— Charles Frazier
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Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.
— Daniel Handler
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The state was made for man, not man for state.
— Albert Einstein
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He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
— Melina Marchetta
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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going…
— Timothy Leary
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In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think…
— Assata Shakur
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A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith;…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
— Emma Goldman
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Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or…
— James A. Garfield
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
— Charles Bukowski
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I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If…
— John Kennedy Toole
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