#state

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#being #comprises #equal #every #founded

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#home #home state #i #into #land

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain. ↗

— Adam Ant

#brain #clinical #good #just #knocked

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ↗

— Julian Assange

#between #china #enormous #freedom #freedom of speech

I think the United States is way behind the times. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#i #i think #states #think #times

It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#big #big deal #deal #make #nudity

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#civilians #control #distort #feelings #hysteria

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#complete #his #individual #left #live

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ↗

— Richard Bach

#christmas #idea #states #united #united states

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#get #i #idea #less #older