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Letter "S" » States
«Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?»
«More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
Die in, food, in the United States, States, the United States, too little, united, United States
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a -it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.»
«Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
bombed, bombing, bombs, dropped, explode, explodes, exploding, explosives, Hussein, pound, pounded, pounding, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, States, the United States, united, United States
«I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, affairs, agency, a people, failed, interposition, manifested, manifesting, omnipotence, pained, protect, revolution, States, state of affairs, The Agency, the United States, united, United States
«Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Failure,
Life
| Keywords:
becoming, combination, combinations, death, death wish, elect, electing, elects, fail, go through, kind, kind of, process, processed, processing, remain, state, States, This Is, This is a, wish
«But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.»
Author: Bob Dylan
| Keywords:
must have, naked, President, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, States, the President, the United States, united, United States
«Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Britain, common language, Great Britain, nations, nation state, separated, States, the United States, united, United States
«It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Enemies,
Injustice,
Poverty
| Keywords:
annually, Enemy of the state, For every, killed, mix, mix up, poverty, soldier, spends, States, the United States, The Victims, tragic, united, United States, victims
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