Statesian Quotes & Sayings

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday. — Oscar Wilde

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none. — G.B. Edwards

The key to me, in religion, is just to treat it like it doesn't really matter. We have a Pope, we don't really believe him, we don't really listen to what he says, we don't really take him seriously. That's what has to happen with religion. It has to be marginalized and in the Islamic world, it's not marginalized, it's taken literally. — Bill Maher

You know you have found your life mission when you say, I dare you to try and take this away from me. — Shannon L. Alder

stared at it for so long that I became lightheaded, just so I wouldn't lose my focus. If I had, the only thing that would come to mind — Barbara Speak

God made the world for the delight of human beings
if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us
you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His. — Mother Teresa

I'm a big supporter of President Obama. — Russell Simmons

If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion. — Gareth Gates

Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential. — Robin Sharma

Words are the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'. — Sylvia Nasar

Always be humble and gentle with one another. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continents. Several alternatives to America were actively considered -Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, Freedonia or Fredonia (whose denizens would be called Freeds or Fredes)- but none mustered sufficient support to displace the existing name. — Bill Bryson