State Quotes

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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
Dead isnâ€™t angels or ghosts. Itâ€™s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a… — Jodi Picoult
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
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
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
â€ŽA 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
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
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
...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
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
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters… — Carl Hiaasen
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance… — Henry David Thoreau
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and… — Michael Sandel
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they… — Brigham Young
Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger. — Mary Roach
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those… — Scott Westerfeld
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and… — William Shakespeare
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world… — Charles Darwin
A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind. — Douglas Adams

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