Top 1200 State Department Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Why do we need a federal Department of Education? Curriculum should be driven at the local level anyway.

Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

Since Mark Richt took his offense from Florida State to Georgia, Florida State has been floundering. They have no identity. They have a bunch of plays, but they have no system and no philosophy.

I would love to be a public servant to this great state, and I would like to leave everything on the field. Give 110 percent to the state, and we'll see where it takes me.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?

Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security, they have the primary responsibility of ensuring that our ports are secure.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Every officer can be assured: you have the unequivocal support of the Department of Justice. We have your back, and you have our thanks.

I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

One of the many important roles of the Department of Justice is to represent the United States in civil and criminal trials.

Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press.

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

A great deal of my energy is directed toward battling the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department.

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

What's going to be hard for the United States is that our policy for a long time has been a two-state solution; the Palestinians should have their own state. Now, the Palestinians are going to the U.N. and saying, 'We're having the U.N. vote to say we have our own state. Well, if that's your policy, United States of America, why are you vetoing it?' Which we will do.

You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. You are not doing anything, you are not thinking anything, you are not planning for anything, you are not doing yoga exercises, and you are not doing any technique, any method - you are simply existing, just existing. And in that very moment... the sudden realization that all is as it should be. That`s what enlightenment is!

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.

In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.

In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics.