State Quotes - page 2

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. (Dan Quayle)
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. View quote
Ariel Sharon
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. View quote
Arthur Miller
Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. View quote
Voltaire
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. View quote
José Martí
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... View quote
John Adams
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. View quote
James K. Polk
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. View quote
Ayn Rand
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. (Vladimir Lenin)
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. View quote
O. Henry
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. View quote
Norman Mailer
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. View quote
Thom Yorke
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. (Carl Rogers)
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. View quote
E. O. Wilson