States Quotes
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What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
George Lillo -
Southern states simply do not believe in funding education to the extent that northern states do.
Chuck Thompson
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fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.
Thomas Nagel -
You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.
William Shakespeare -
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
Thomas Dewar -
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 -
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins -
People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'
Sharron Angle
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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
William Shakespeare -
People love steak all over the United States.
Michael Mina -
Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
Vladimir Putin -
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
Wole Soyinka -
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr -
[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.
Madeleine Albright
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I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.
Ernie Chambers -
Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.
Craig Fugate -
It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
Bill Gates -
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
Alex Shakar -
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.
Thomas R. Marshall -
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
Seth Godin
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
Gautama Buddha -
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White -
The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
Andrew Bacevich -
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau