Quotes of: Welfare-state Keyword

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

Penelope Cruz

In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Peter Coyote

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

Pim Fortuyn

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Patrick J. Kennedy

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

Padma Lakshmi

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

Plato

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

Pedro Pierluisi

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Paul Schrader

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Polly Toynbee

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

Pope John XXIII

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Rocco Buttiglione

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Robert D. Kaplan

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.

Steve Earle

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Sam Harris

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?

Tommy Bond

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

Taylor Hackford