Top 1200 State Department Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

President Obama was well known for his interfering in Justice Department matters.

Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

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.

Look, I still think Texas is a - is a red state. It's going to continue to be a red state. I think as people stay more time in Texas, they become red. They see what, you know, Texas, kind of low tax, you know, a pro-business economy is doing for them as well. It's a well-run state.

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.

We work in a shop about the size of the paint department of Richard Childress Racing.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

Find someone who you really believe in - that can be at a state level. The one thing I can encourage women to do the most is to start at the state level.

If BJP and its allies have been chosen by the people in state after state across regions, it is due to the good governance that Modi has successfully implemented and the 'can do' spirit of New India that he resonates.

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

When I'm in a state of goodness about the world, no matter what is happening, I see that goodness. But if I'm in an irritable, angry, separate state, I've shut down.

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

You know when you play Pictionary and someone draws a state? My biggest fear is that I'm not gonna know what state it is. I'm so bad at geography.

Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.

You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body.

I certainly have the energy, and there's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.

The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

The most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything.