The State Quotes

Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

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.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

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".

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.