Top 1200 Empire State Building Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in a country, for the purpose of war.

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to a dictatorship.

When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

If I have to convey some message to different parts of the state, then the state capital offers me the best platform.

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.

In terms of what is the solution is going forward, in my view, it is the grassroots human-rights groups - both Israeli and Palestinian - that are doing exactly what needs to be done, which is building trust, developing relationships and building that sense of common community which is essential if we're going to figure out how to move forward.

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

If there's any state in the country whose values are not consistent with the things Trump has been saying, it's the State of Maryland.

Throughout my time in the State House, we have worked to protect and expand access to reproductive care for people across the state.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

We want to channelize the youth so that the state benefits from them and help Uttar Pradesh become a developed state.

I'm proud of our relationship with our neighbors right next door in Mexico. I don't talk about building walls, I talk about building bridges and increasing that communication, increasing that flow, and that's really what defines our border region in San Diego.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I'd get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

When you stand in the present, you become thoughtlessly aware. And this state is the first state you achieve, and this is the state where you become absolutely peaceful within yourself. The peace is so great that you enjoy your peaceful existence. Not only that, but you become the source of peace. Wherever you go, you emit peace.

We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Breathing in the proper state gets you into a state where you digest food better and calms your brainwaves down.

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

Ye are God's building. All hands of the glorious Trinity are at work in this building. The Father chose the objects of mercy, and gave them to the Son to be redeemed: the Son purchased redemption for them; and the Holy Ghost applies the purchased redemption unto them.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.