Quotes on State

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

Author: Iyad Allawi

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Author: Aristotle

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Author: James Baldwin

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

Author: Derek Barton

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Author: Frederic Bastiat

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

Author: Julian Bond

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Author: Jorge Borges

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Author: Carol Braun

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

Author: Richard Burr

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Author: Robert Byrne

We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.

Author: Eric Cantor

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.

Author: Michael Castle

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

Author: Michael Castle

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.

Author: Leroy Chiao

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

Author: Emile Cioran

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Author: Richard Codey

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

Author: Jim Coleman

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Author: Mason Cooley

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

Author: Gray Davis

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Author: Ralph Emerson

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Author: Friedrich Engels

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

Author: Morton Feldman

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

Author: Peter Fonda

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Author: John Galbraith

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

Author: David Gurion

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

Author: David Guterson

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

Author: Katherine Harris

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Author: Jim Harrison

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

Author: Bobby Heenan

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

Author: Heinrich Himmler

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Author: Jane Hull

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

Author: Samuel Huntington

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Author: Aldous Huxley

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Author: Jesse Jackson

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Author: Bianca Jagger

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.

Author: Al Jardine

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

Author: Stephan Jenkins

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Author: Mike Johanns

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Author: Mary Jones

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Author: Kiri Kanawa

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

Author: John Kellogg

In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

Author: Patrick Kennedy

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

Author: Sonny Landham

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

Author: Christian Lange

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Author: Christian Lange

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

Author: Christian Lange

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

Author: Christian Lange

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

Author: Teresa Lauretis

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Author: Earl Long

I am the state.

Author: Louis Louis XIV

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Author: Edward Luck

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

Author: Loretta Lynn

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

Author: Ella Maillart

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Author: Martin McGuinness

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Author: Marty Meehan

My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.

Author: Thomas Menino

The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency.

Author: Joe Miller

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

Author: William Morton

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Author: Holly Near

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

Author: Don Nickles

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Author: Kenzaburo Oe

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

Author: Jean O'Leary

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

Author: Pat Oliphant

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

Author: Carl Paladino

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Author: George Pataki

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

Author: Henri Pirenne

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

Author: Stephen Potter

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Author: Ted Rall

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

Author: Jodi Rell

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

Author: Ed Rendell

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Author: James Reston

No state legislature ever built a great university.

Author: James Rogers

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

Author: Dana Rohrabacher

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Author: Sallust

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

Author: Fritz Sauckel

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Author: Marilyn Savant

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

Author: Jack Schwartz

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Author: Silvan Shalom

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Author: Patti Smith

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Author: Thomas Sowell

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

Author: Jack Steinberger

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

Author: Sting

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Author: Hannah Storm

We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it.

Author: Michael Taylor

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Author: Dylan Thomas

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Author: E. Thompson

As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.

Author: Joshua Tucker

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

Author: Henry Villard

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

Author: Bobby Vinton

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

Author: David Wain

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

Author: Robert Winthrop

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Author: Fay Wray