Top 1200 Empire State Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

It is the greatest feeling in the world. When we shine, we defy death for the moment. We enter into a state of immersion in the craft we ply, a state in which we become one with what we do.

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a 'same sex' marriage license issued in another state.

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

With 'CCSKNH,' we are planning to carry forward the rich legacy of the state. Though there haven't been many Haryanvi films, the state has tremendous potential.

The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

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.

Everyone’s default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it’s sometimes amazing what comes out of people.

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else.

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

To be able to say you're a state 100-yard dash champion from the state of Florida it just doesn't get a whole lot better than that.

While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

I've never struggled with that at all....in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then 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.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

I love fan bases where it matters so much. In that state, with both Alabama and Auburn in the same state, it just makes that rivalry so unique. You guys live it 52 weeks out of the year. Ohio State fans live it 52 weeks out of the year, but their counterpart, Michigan, doesn't.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's a fact that everything is connected with the individualist temperament, the kind of economic environment which stresses the individual, but this is not directly the result of a state policy, nor do I see any good way by which the state could intervene except in some marginal ways.

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.

I was born and raised in the state of Indiana, and it's where I started Papa John's, so this state and our partnership with the Pacers hold a special place in my heart.

Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.