State Quotes - page 3

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. (Carl Rogers)
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. View quote
Anaïs Nin
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. View quote
George Santayana
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. View quote
Mary McCarthy
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. View quote
Helen Keller
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. View quote
Henri Bergson
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. View quote
Sarah Palin
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. (Benjamin Netanyahu)
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. View quote
William Wordsworth
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. View quote
Dan Quayle
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. View quote
John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. View quote
John Stuart Mill
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