States famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
-- Aaron Copland -
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
-- Aaron Klein -
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-- Abbe Pierre -
Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers
-- Abel P. Upshur -
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
-- Adam Clarke -
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
-- Adolf Hitler -
Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
-- African Spir -
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
-- Aja Monet -
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.
-- Alastair Mackenzie -
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
The state was made for man, not man for state.
-- Albert Einstein -
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
-- Albert J. Nock -
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
-- Albert J. Nock -
When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.
-- Albert J. Nock -
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
-- Albert J. Nock -
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
-- Alberto Manguel -
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
-- Alexander Pope -
He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
-- Alexander Pope -
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,
-- Alexei Sayle -
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
-- Alfred Nobel -
It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.
-- Alice Notley -
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
-- Alice Sebold -
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
-- Alistair Cooke -
The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.
-- Alistair Darling -
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
-- Allen West -
Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
-- Amin Maalouf -
One thing I love is to stop doing. When I just STOP and start looking, I enter a state that is much more dreamy, and find I look at things quite differently. It seems like a change in scale - both very close up, and simultaneously very distant.
-- Amy Hardie -
When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through.
-- Anais Nin -
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
-- Anais Nin -
The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
-- Anita Hill -
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
-- Ann Kirkpatrick -
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
-- Anne Lamott -
Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?
-- Anne Rice -
Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.
-- Anodea Judith -
When the State withers, humanity flowers.
-- Anthony Burgess -
When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.
-- Anthony Foxx -
Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.
-- Anthony Gregory -
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
-- Antisthenes -
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
-- Anton Chekhov -
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
-- Antonin Scalia -
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
-- Antonin Scalia -
State is the nation socially organized.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
-- Archibald Cox -
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
-- Archie Shepp -
There is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish state without the EVICTION of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.
-- Ariel Sharon -
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.
-- Ariel Sharon -
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
-- Aristotle -
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
-- Aristotle -
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
-- Aristotle -
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
-- Aristotle -
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
-- Arlen Specter -
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
-- Arne Duncan -
To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
-- Arthur Miller -
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
-- Asger Jorn -
Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
-- Aslan Maskhadov -
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos -
I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?
-- Barack Obama -
For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.
-- Barack Obama -
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Europe is a state with several provinces
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
-- Baroness Orczy -
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
-- Bayard Rustin -
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
-- Bela Lugosi -
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
-- Belle Boyd -
I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
-- Ben Whishaw -
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
-- Benito Mussolini -
Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.
-- Benjamin De Hoyos -
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux
