Top 1200 Small Nations Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

We should work together to be of peace and happiness for all people in all nations.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

The Paycheck Protection Program has been vital to helping our small businesses and workers weather the coronavirus pandemic. Yet this program has operated with little oversight, and we've seen Kansas small businesses owners struggle to access relief while large corporations with deep pockets have no problem.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed.

Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

I can still hear my mom's voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to 'Make your beds!' It seems like such a small thing, but when you're one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.