Top 1200 State Of Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.

Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

I don't really care how people see me in my natural state, in a comfortable state.

Residents expect their state leaders to deliver solutions for the people of their state.

As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind which tells us that we are worth far more than our money.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. It is almost entirely an inner experience.

It is no surprise that neither Hillary Clinton nor the Obama State Department agrees with our request to depose Mrs. Clinton concerning her exclusive use of her non-state.gov email account to house and send tens of thousands of official emails throughout her entire tenure as secretary of state.

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates.

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.

The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

There's only one professional team in Columbus, the Blue Jackets, but Ohio State is a football state.

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the state banks, impelled a further inflationary expansion of state banks on top of the spectacular enlargement of the central bank. Thus, the number of incorporated state banks rose from 232 in 1816 to 338 in 1818.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.

Arkansas is a very small state, and it's even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.