State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. â€”Tybalt — Mira Grant
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue… — Elizabeth Moon
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can… — Bell Hooks
Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to… — Nick Hornby
But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who… — Francis Schaeffer
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. — C.S. Lewis
There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is… — Joyce Carol Oates
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public… — Sarah Palin
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into… — Dennis Lehane
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.â€ â€œYeah,â€… — Rick Riordan
The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied… — Tate Hallaway
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the… — Terry Pratchett
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it… — Gilles Deleuze
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a… — Saint Augustine
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any… — Kingsley Amis
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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