Top 100 State Of Quotes
#1. How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?
Billy Graham
#2. Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
Samuel Johnson
#3. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.
Ambrose Bierce
#5. To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
Robert Owen
#6. A writer seeks to discover a lucid state of creative consciousness uncoiling from a boule of internal disequilibrium and dutifully attempts to bridge that cavernous divide between the known and the unknown and articulate raw truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#7. Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible ...
Donald Brown
#8. We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place
we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.
Shirley Jackson
#9. You must maintain a state of happiness, state of joy to let the positive thoughts emanate from your mind.. If you are in a state of joy, your thoughts emanate positive energy, and you can influence others without much efforts.
Girdhar Joshi
#10. The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.
Woody Harrelson
#12. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
George Gaylord Simpson
#13. Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
Ayn Rand
#14. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
Alan Watts
#15. Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
David Wojnarowicz
#16. Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision
Suze Orman
#17. A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#18. Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen.
Tohoru Masamune
#21. I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand ... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran
#22. I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.
Stephen Shore
#23. Even a liar's speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.
J. Budziszewski
#24. You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
Greg Abbott
#25. When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.
Lois Lowry
#26. I was torn between wanting to rush out of this moment, toward that more, and wanting to stay in it, living in a state of constant anticipation and constant safety.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#28. Susan had never before come across the idea that you could rise in Society by, as it were, gaining marks, especially since such noblemen as she'd met in her father's house had used neither serviette nor napkin but a state of mind, which was Drop it on the floor, the dogs'll eat it.
Terry Pratchett
#29. We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
Ted Turner
#30. President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'
Ron Wyden
#31. I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
Hayao Miyazaki
#32. When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
Immanuel Kant
#33. ...romantic weltschmerz, a state of feeling thought to be basically subversive yet in most cases, like 'beat' rebelliousness today, adolescent and harmless.
Leo Marx
#34. There's a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I'm always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.
Mindy Kaling
#35. Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.
Henry Bonilla
#36. We are all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.
Narissa Doumani
#37. The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.
Andy Stanley
#38. My mother had never openly protested my relationship with Sydney. Really, there'd been no chance. I'd simply shown up at Court with a bride in tow, and no one had been able to put asunder those whom the state of Nevada had brought together.
Richelle Mead
#39. This is music's most spectacular conjuring trick. Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth.
Howard Goodall
#40. November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
Axl Rose
#41. You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#42. 'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.
Darren Star
#43. Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.
Jacqueline Delange
#44. In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.
Eckhart Tolle
#45. Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
Honore De Balzac
#46. Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
Rodman Philbrick
#47. Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
Steven Pressfield
#48. The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.
Bassem Youssef
#49. In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.
Sufjan Stevens
#50. A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.
William Sansom
#51. We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.
Nayomi Munaweera
#52. It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
Murray N. Rothbard
#53. Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
Paula McLain
#54. The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.
Jill Purce
#55. What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
Seneca The Younger
#56. Akiva felt the tilt of the world trying to tip him forward: to be nearer to her
nearer and touching
as though that were the only state of rest, and every other action and movement were geared to achieving it.
Laini Taylor
#57. But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of us still seeking the things we've sought all along - shelter, food, love, greater meaning - " He shakes his head. "A quest that's immune to evolution.
Alyson Noel
#58. As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
Sloane Crosley
#59. As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.
Leonard Sweet
#60. Ghetto is not the People but their state of mind.
Joan Ambu
#61. Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.
Eckhart Tolle
#62. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.
Karen Armstrong
#64. In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.
Shmuley Boteach
#65. I think it is important to stay open to the world around you, so that you are constantly in a state of growth and evolution, which can only happen through inspiration.
Cara Santana
#66. Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood
Rudyard Kipling
#67. Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
Tony Dungy
#68. It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#69. Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.
Richard Carlson
#70. Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced "ooh-way." This is a state of spontaneous flow.
Anonymous
#71. Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
Victor Hugo
#72. People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
Josef Pieper
#74. We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
#75. To have a caring and committed heart toward someone - a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person's state of health, appearance, reputation, finances, troubles, or challenges - that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#76. My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.
Thomas Menino
#77. As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.
P.G. Wodehouse
#78. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H.L. Mencken
#79. Age is a state of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige
#80. When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.
Henry Rollins
#82. As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.
Keke Palmer
#85. Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#86. I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.
Multatuli
#87. Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.
Reginald Hudlin
#88. Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
James Thomson
#89. Sometimes ...
it took seconds to control your anger,
only to avoid the state of eternal feud.
Toba Beta
#90. If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.
Roger Casement
#91. Homosexuality and trance were considered abnormalities now, while in the Middle Ages people had been made saints for their trances, which were considered the highest state of being, and in Ancient Greece, as Plato makes clear, homosexuality was 'a major means to the good life.
Lily King
#92. Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence.
Michael Douglas
#93. But mostly I wrote letters of gratitude: the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I'm truly beside myself.
Nora Ephron
#94. In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean Baudrillard
#95. Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.
Rodman Philbrick
#96. When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
Terence
#97. All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
Billy Porter
#98. Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
#99. Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.
Paul Auster
#100. Life is a state of consciousness.
Emmet Fox
