State Quotes

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

Peace, Time, Christmas

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum

Positive, Yourself, Important

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Against, Conscience, Demands

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Best, Government, Evil

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein

Confusion, Away, Used

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Pain, Human, May

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange

Mother, Children, Become

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

Life, Health, Death

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

May, Cannot, Whatever

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Everything, Silence, May

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

Free, Soldier, Citizen

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Nation, Ignorant

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

Death, Together, Two

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Grow, Grasp

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

Life, Death, Through

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau

May, Before, Sick

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Happiness, Find

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan

Political, Another, Everybody

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Waiting, Around

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Successful, Mind

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp

Pretty, Try, Confusion

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Aristotle

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

Said, Pay, Owes

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, Corrupt

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Permanent, Observers

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing, Fate, Deeds

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle

Young, Resembling

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