Best States Quotes

The Universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratefulness.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state…. To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Don’t lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here… then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States – that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

I’d rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

The United States doesn’t do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world’s government.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Happiness is a state of mind.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

America is now a land that rewards failure – at the personal, corporate, and state level.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Massachusetts became the first state to marry gay couples, though lawmakers say allowing gay couples to get married raises a lot of questions. You know, such as: does that best man invite both guys to the bachelor party?

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope … and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.