Quotes About State

Until 1967, when the Soviet Union superseded the PRC, China was the largest Communist state supplier of war materials to North Vietnam, providing about 44.8 percent of Hanoi's total international military aid that year.

The nation and the state depend on each other.

Oui, tout à fait Notre pays est un État de droit. C'est indéniable. Encore faut-il préciser de quel droit il s'agit… Il n'y en a qu'un seul, unique et indivisible : le droit de garder le silence.

From our perspective the only way to enjoy a state of permanent happiness and avoid all suffering is to achieve enlightenment. This is why bodhichitta is considered to be the most altruistic of motivations. We wish to achieve enlightenment not only for ourselves but to help every other living being achieve the same state.

I would like that very much. You have a bargain, lady. I will find you here among the lost souls, trapped women, and birds. I find that my own state has improved, if only slightly. Where I was once likely to travel in the presence of a murder of crows, I find I will only be burdened by an unkindness of ravens. It gives me heart." - A. E. Poe in Nevermore

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

Ultimately, unbroken fellowship with God through the Lamb of God provides the central feature of the eternal state.

corruption is a symptom of a deeper ill, the disregard for the value of the individual by comparison with the perceived requirements of the state. An attack on corruption that does not address this underlying subservience risks removing one group of corrupt leaders and replacing them with another group that is just as bad.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

The real reason people oppose marriage equality is religious in nature. Marriage equality is therefore not only a civil rights issue, but also a separation-of-church-and-state issue.

That's why anyone claiming morality is fixed is simply ignorant of world history, or even American history, not to mention the state of the world today.

As Sir Bernard Crick puts it, "No state has the capacity to ensure that men are happy; but all states have the capacity to ensure that men are unhappy.

Todo el mundo está a favor de reducir el Estado, salvo que encuentre la manera de vivir de él.

Immerse your mind in positive energy and at least 70 percent of the matter in your body comes into sync with that elevated state.

The act of persistence may be more essential to the meditator than the permanent attainment of Bliss Brain. The true hero may be she who persists, not she who wins. So in your meditation practice, fail happily. Fail an infinite number of times. Falling from ecstasy isn't the problem; it's part of the process. Choosing to elevate your state back to Bliss Brain even if you only succeed in maintaining it for a second is the crucial component of a successful meditation practice.

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism

Before I could ask, he caught sight of the garment in my hand. "In the name of bleeding Jesus, what are you sewing? Is that my shirt?" "It is, and I must say, it is in a deplorable state. But at least the material is quite good and will stand up to proper mending. Unfortunately, mending is not one of my skills," I said, holding up the shirt. Somehow I had managed to attach it to my own skirt, and I took up scissors to snip it free.

I had kept Stoker hard at work, coaxing and bullying him into the best state he had known since she had annihilated him, and now her name was spoken once more, like a terrible incantation summoning a ghost that had never been entirely laid.

Those who lack courage, can't be kind for kindness is a state of courage.

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

c'est moi"—"the state is myself