State Change Quotes

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

War is not merely a state of things under which ordinary principles of government and normal peaceful intercourse between peoples come to an end. It is a state of things created by the importation into national and international life of new factors altogether.

States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

Revolutions of state, many times, make way for new institutions and forms; and often determine in either setting up some tyranny at home, or bringing in some conquest from abroad.

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

Empires being neither up nor down do not fall. They change their appearance.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.

Whenever I'm on the field, I'm another guy.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

I was in Colorado for about 15 years but my family is all from Florida.