Top 1200 State Department Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.

I must say the geographically small State of Kerala has been traditionally influencing the discourse of the country with progressive ideas and innovative programs. Its voice really transcends the physical boundaries of the State.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

Since taking the oath of office as our state's 36th Governor, I've met so many dedicated state workers that take great pride in being hard-working public servants.

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or movement in the bullpen so that Tennessee could transition as a state.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.

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.

What I did in New York was bring people together, an overwhelmingly Democratic state. But I was able to get Democrats to support the most conservative sweeping policy changes in any state in America.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

To destroy the Islamic State, you have to fix Syria. You have to look at the reasons that created the Islamic State. This is a huge task.

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

I think it would be a privilege to play in Tampa, period, with the Florida State fan base and everything I have been involved with in the state of Florida.

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Non-Resident Keralites are a major strength to our State. They have immensely contributed to the development of the State and our economy heavily depends on them.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.

I'd go into a department store now and buy everything. It's who I am. I just love cosmetics.

There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Does the Centre not have confidence in the state's investigative agencies? It leads to strained relations between the Centre and state.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.

Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.