State Quotes

7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost. — Baron de Montesquieu
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all… — Helene Hanff
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie. — Banksy
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I… — William James
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs… — Hunter S. Thompson
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt… — Mark Levin
Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically… — Noam Chomsky
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of… — Anne Lamott
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so… — M. Scott Peck
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind… — Douglas Coupland
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my… — Hugh Laurie
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused… — Fulton J. Sheen
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. — Vladimir Nabokov
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. — Anais Nin
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman… — Stephen Colbert
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious… — Paul Feyerabend
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The… — Cornel West
I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. — Charles Dickens
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization… — Kurt Vonnegut

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