States Quotes
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Happiness is a state a mind, not a dress size.
Kathryn Budig
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It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
Konrad Zuse
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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
William S. Burroughs
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The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.
Tzipi Livni
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The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
William Francis Buckley
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
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On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I think, a very strong voice.
Eric Garcetti
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Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
Thomas Dewar
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The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
Henry Ward Beecher
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All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
Willy Brandt
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This state of independence shall be!
John Roy Anderson Yes
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
Ernest Hemingway
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
Garry Winogrand
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard
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Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
William H. Wharton
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My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.
Yaacov Agam
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We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.
Vladimir Putin
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For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.
John Ensign
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
Aristotle
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We British have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.
James Goldsmith
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A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state
C. F. W. Walther