The State Quotes

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

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

Lucky people create, notice and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. Being in the right place at the right time is actually all about being in the right state of mind.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

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

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

Being ready is state of mind... It's a mentality. Do you think your the best in the world? Do you work hard every single day?

Simplicity is a state of mind.

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

What I wanted with that Ruthless state of mind,: just to show people who I am as a person and why I do what I do, and why I go as hard as I do go.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.