Top 1200 Central Asia Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I support good relations with other countries. A policy of détente will be a central issue for me.

I'm definitely more Asian than a lot of people who have never been to Asia. But by blood and by race, they instantly say I deserve to be Asian. I've worked really hard to be Asian, and I think I'm Asian enough.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

The BJP's central leadership needs to recast the party structure where you openly speak of Hindutva and Indianness.

I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

I dislike snobby people, routine housework and getting up early in the morning, and central heating.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

It is inappropriate to portray the central contribution to the Disaster Relief Fund as help for COVID-19 prevention.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State, blows that attracted the notice and attention of colonial dissidents in Asia and Africa.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

We`re talking about bilateral agreements with other countries in Asia, so that we can expand our influence and get countries to play by our set of rules. That`s to me is something that`s really important.

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.

One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

Finding specialty food items was a bit of a challenge in Asia in the early days of getting the Mozza's up and running. Everything is built on relationships, and when you start somewhere new, it takes time to develop that. Staffing can also present challenges.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.

I have the highest respect for the concept of 'Advait' - the oneness of all humans - that is central to Indian culture, thought, and religion.