State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the…
— Dean Koontz
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One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made…
— Edith Wharton
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For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;…
— John Locke
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in…
— Edna Ferber
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Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which…
— F.E. Higgins
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be…
— Charles Dickens
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Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future,…
— Yahtzee Croshaw
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Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
— Laura Lippman
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
— Anton Chekhov
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As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution,…
— Pema Chodron
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It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
— John Milton
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[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he…
— Christopher Hitchens
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As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not…
— Christopher Hitchens
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