Top 100 State That Quotes
#1. We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.
Rick Perry
#2. To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.
Karl Evang
#3. There is an invitation beyond the wall of knowledge, which is not to some regressive state before the mind can operate, but a transcendent state that's beyond where the mind can go. That's what spirituality is. It's going where the mind cannot go.
Adyashanti
#4. The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.
James Redfield
#5. Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.
Tara Brach
#6. Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.
M. Scott Peck
#7. A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber
#8. What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?
Jello Biafra
#9. Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he has learned something no other person in the world has ever known before him. ... I have been lucky enough to be included in such an event.
Kenneth Franklin
#10. Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
Talib Kweli
#11. The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. 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
#14. Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
Bo Derek
#15. Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.
Cecelia Ahern
#16. It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
Arnold Palmer
#17. A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Bill Vaughan
#18. Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry?
Have they?
Catherynne M Valente
#19. We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
Ann Macbeth
#20. Indiana is a state that works because conservative principles work every time you put them into practice.
Mike Pence
#21. I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#22. It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.
Alain De Botton
#23. I found an online knife store. I'd rather go and pick one up so that I had it today, but then I noticed they had a category called. California Legal. Apparently, I lived in a state that had really solid knife control-but still allowed you to own a machine gun. Logical.
Marshall Thornton
#24. You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.
Pedro Noguera
#25. You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
Lee Iacocca
#26. There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.
Reuven Rivlin
#27. Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.
Mikhail Bakunin
#28. President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.
Jay Leno
#29. If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.
Sean Duffy
#30. A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
Jostein Gaarder
#31. This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.
Matthew Polly
#32. You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.
George Pataki
#33. I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.
Tim Scott
#34. I've never claimed not to have interest in you, Your Grace. As a matter of fact, considering our encounters, I believe it fair to state that I've undoubtedly expressed an interest in you.
Lorraine Heath
#35. Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
Carrie Jones
#36. A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
Ryan Holiday
#37. If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
Virginia Woolf
#38. Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can't think of any Asian-American ones.
Paul Beatty
#39. Most people released from prison after being proved innocent receive no money, no assistance, no counseling - nothing from the state that wrongly imprisoned them. At
Bryan Stevenson
#40. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...
Christopher Hitchens
#41. The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
Gregor Strasser
#42. It is the wall of separation between church and state ... that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.
Alan Dershowitz
#43. Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja..
Masaaki Hatsumi
#44. Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.
Dada Bhagwan
#45. [T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.
Anne Fadiman
#46. When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.
Michael Eisen
#47. Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.
Tariq Ramadan
#48. This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#49. The State that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides
#51. It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.
Igor Sikorsky
#52. I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress, though in other respects it seems to have been left behind in the race for 21st century development.
Shashi Tharoor
#53. There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.
Rose George
#54. With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.
Jay Parini
#55. Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it.
Virginia Cowles
#56. I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death - I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.
Graeme Simsion
#57. We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#58. People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#59. It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.
Don DeLillo
#60. We've been tagged twice by that Bruce Mate guy from Oregon State. That guy's a menace. Probably has a satellite tag on his wife to track her trips to the can.
Christopher Moore
#61. We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.
Tim Pawlenty
#62. I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.
Rick Larsen
#63. Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.
Annalee Newitz
#64. Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.
Kerry Patterson
#65. It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights.
Oscar Micheaux
#66. I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.
Christopher Fowler
#67. The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
Bart D. Ehrman
#68. It is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.
Seneca.
#69. Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
Nick Cave
#70. I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.
Marius Petipa
#71. While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.
Kim Il-sung
#72. No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.
Paul Ehrenfest
#73. I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.
Michael Oren
#74. There's something in this particular practice that can teach us Cristians a powerful lesson, that we may see so vividly our own wretched state, that it's not this world we should cherish but the promise of the next.
Joseph Boyden
#75. Any mental state that destroys calmness of mind and brings about mental misery, which upsets, afflicts, and torments the mind, is said to be a delusion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#76. Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
Rick Perlstein
#77. Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#78. In court, pricey lawyers from the city try to answer the question: whose life is more endangered, the spotted owl's or the logger's? Victims of mutual incompatibility, both owl and logger are disappearing in Oregon, a state that once had enough standing timber to rebuild every house in America.
Timothy Egan
#79. As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm
#80. It is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual's livelihood in the free market is never too secure.
Murray N. Rothbard
#81. Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.
Seanan McGuire
#82. Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
Walter Russell Mead
#83. The world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good.
Girolamo Savonarola
#84. Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...
Joe McMahon
#85. We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
Jimmy Carter
#86. Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.
Michael Shermer
#87. I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out to me, I may state that no objections worthy of remark have been alleged against what I then said on these questions except two, to which I will here briefly reply.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.
L. Ron Hubbard
#89. He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.
Martin Amis
#90. 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
#91. Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
Judy Biggert
#92. If you're Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues.
Amy Walter
#93. It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
Adolf Hitler
#94. Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#95. I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.
Thomas De Maiziere
#96. We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
Leopoldo Lopez
#97. The State, that immune betrayer, which embezzles billions and jails anyone who defrauds it of as much as five marks, would find some pretext for not paying.
Erich Maria Remarque
#98. It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.
Liz Becker
#99. I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
Joe Manchin
#100. When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true.
Eric Schneiderman
