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States Quotes - Page 18

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]”

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

"The Left's Inability to Confront Evil" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 8, 2006.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.251, W. W. Norton & Company

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

"George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.