State Quotes
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
Dan Quayle
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
Plotinus
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The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
Jostein Gaarder
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Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.
Edouard Vuillard
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The Church is the merciless heart of the State.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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I'm excited how we're playing. I don't know if this team is capable of going deep into the state tournament, but I'll take my chances with them. I'm very much looking forward to see what we can do.
Frank Waters
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
Aristotle
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The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.
Isaac Newton
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
Oscar Wilde
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When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy. Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction.
Andrey Illarionov
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This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
Paddy Ashdown
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
Aristotle
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Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
Sigmund Freud
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That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
Eric Gill
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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
Aristotle
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The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
Bob Weinstein
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The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
Peter Ueberroth
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Blaise Pascal
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Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.
Carl Whitaker
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Y’all pray for VA they just shut down the whole city till June. Thank God my family is straight. But praying for the state as a whole .
Aaron Cole
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This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
Ernie Fletcher
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This Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis.
Dennis Hastert