Top 1200 Empire State Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

When things are in the hands of the state they are in a hell of a state!

It just struck me as obvious that a state has the right to restrict its welfare benefits only to those people who are U.S. citizens or are visiting the state legally.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.

It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

It is my goal as governor to steady the ship of state and improve the image of Alabama, part of that entails ending unnecessary duplication of services within state agencies.

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act with impunity.

It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Roe v. Wade used raw judicial power to overturn the democratically passed laws in every state in the country and remove state restrictions on abortion.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

To reduce the burden on the state exchequer, we increased the price of rice. I find nothing wrong in doing so in the best interests of the people and for the overall development of the state.

China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions.

For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

People of our State know the commitment and sincerity with which my Government deals with issues concerning the State, including Left wing extremism.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state`s first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow state, the seed-form, the atomic stage; love is all encompassing, love is God. The center of the ego is I; the ego exists for itself. The nectar of love is the universe. Love exists for all.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Aang hits the Avatar-state and he has this unlimited power. He enters into a flow state, you know, he's in the zone. That's how it feels for me sometimes when I'm fighting.

I am proud of my record as Colorado's State Treasurer. I have protected the taxpayer's money and grown the value of the state's investments in a very challenging economy.

Yes, sunny Nevada is an ideal state for solar power. As it gets cheaper, the state should use solar whenever it makes financial sense. But politicians shouldn't force you to buy it regardless of cost. It doesn't make sense to insert into the state constitution a requirement on energy use that locks Nevada into 50 percent wind and solar.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.