Top 1200 Small Nations Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

Terrorism knows no boundaries and doesn't respect nations' sovereignties.

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

The United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient, and effective.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Most nations have some type of creation story.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.