If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way.
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.
The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold. " "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness
The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.