Quotes About States

Best case scenario? There was no applesauce extradition agreement between our two states.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

English, like any other natural language, has two major communicative functions. The first is an ideational function: to get an idea across, as when I say, It's raining, or I love you. It also has an interactive-interpersonal function: to influence the attitudes and behaviours of others, and, in a myriad ways, change an aspect of the world's states of affairs in the process

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

It affirmed that international law was not only law 'between States' but 'also the law of mankind'. Those who transgressed it would have no immunity, even if they were leaders, a reflection of the 'outraged conscience of the world'.

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

he will find people there who, seeing the want, undertake the office of salesmen. In well-ordered states they are commonly those who are the weakest in bodily strength, and therefore of little use for any other purpose;

For we cannot suppose that States are made of 'oak and rock,' and not out of the human natures which are in them, and which in a figure turn the scale and draw other things after them? Yes

Los Estados para ser dichosos no tienen necesidad de murallas, ni de buques, ni de arsenales, ni de tropas, ni de gran aparato; la única cosa de que tienen necesidad para su felicidad es la virtud.

It bears repeating: the mental states needed to compete are not always socially palatable.

Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.

Oh, well. There's a dance in the States, called the Shag. I gather I shouldn't ask you to do it with me here, though." "Not unless you mean it

The States still has the best audiences by far.

I think Dublin is the best place in the world, all you need is money. I feel safe here, no one is going to shoot me, like in the States.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.

I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

Chatelain, who in 1955 came to the United States from (then) French Morocco. His book was entitled Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space, but it includes quite a number of factoids such as: "When Apollo 11 made the first

past states, across time and space, simply on the basis of similarity with present states. . . .

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

The notion of giving up vaccine that could have been in Victorians' arms so that people in other states can go and have picnics, no, that's not what we are doing.

These had explicitly denied that the demilitarized zone (DMZ) was an international border separating two independent states.