Quotes About State

Shakespeare's state of mind

cuál es el estado mental más propicio al acto de creación?, me pregunté. ¿Puede uno formarse una idea del estado mental que favorece y hace posible esta extraña actividad?

Nothing exists outside us except a state of mind, he thinks; a desire for solace, for relief, for something outside these miserable pigmies, these feeble, these ugly, these craven men and women.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

By this time I was in a state of excitement bordering on insanity; but I also had the cunning of the insane.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospect; it has to be shattered before ascertained.

In this very special self-hypnotic state there can be no question of getting out of touch with on[e]self and floating into a normal sleep (unless you are very tired at the start)

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

The truth has been abused under every Communist regime, due to the fact that no higher authority or greater good is recognized than the state itself.

Urged by the Vatican, the Catholic nations of Latin America had made it clear to the Jews that the price of their votes for the plan to partition Palestine would be the internationalization of Jerusalem. Without them, the Jews had no hopes of mustering the ballots needed to pass partition. With a heavy heart, they had yielded, and Jerusalem's loss was the measure of the price they were willing to pay for a Jewish state.

It was Zionism. With the energy of his despair, Herzl produced its blueprint, a one-hundred-page pamphlet titled Der Judenstaat—"The Jewish State." "The Jews who will it," it began, "shall have a state of their own.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Separation of church and state' meant freedom to worship, not freedom from worship.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Money affects us all, at all stages in our lives. It has the power to enhance and boost our lives, or it can hinder and impede our happiness and lifestyles. I call it an "emotional firecracker." When things are good monetarily, and you feel that you are in a good financial state, life is good.

Let me remind you, this is a community property state, Josh. And let me also remind you that hiding assets during a divorce is a serious offense! Oh, wait! But you're a lawyer, so I guess you already knew that. Too bad you won't be able to plead ignorance when I take you back to court!" Josh

The perfection of the human state, al-insân al-kâmil, means the perfection of both the masculine and feminine qualities together, and is symbolized by the marriage of Imam 'Ali (the nephew and brother-in-law of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad).

Spirit is to matter, as ice is to water, in other words: the same substance, but in a different state. As you admire the beauty of the intricate frost lacework on a winter windowpane, you might pause to reflect that invisible lines of force existed before the frost. The cold manifests the beauty of the lines of force.

There are other ways to create this 'moment of emptiness' besides having to 'hit bottom.' One method would be to perform physical exercise till a state of exhaustion is achieved. Another technique is through sexual stimulation to the point of orgasm, when the mind suddenly goes blank, and we experience what the French call the 'petit mort,' or little death.

A good example to illustrate the difference between the inhibited and unsatisfied types is the state of their cupboards: the cupboards of the inhibited subtype tend to be nearly empty, and these individuals become anxious if their cupboards are too full while the cupboards of the unsatisfied subtype are overflowing, and they become anxious when supplies start to diminish.

I can't screw up Alabama... We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.

all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in which government is viewed as an expression of the people's will; "great beast," in which the rulers' power depends on using force to keep the populace cowed; and "great fraud," in which the elite uses smoke and mirrors to convince the people of its inherent authority.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.