Top 1200 Foreign Aid Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.

The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting fighters overseas, also the one that was holding James Foley and John Cantlie and Kayla Mueller?

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.

I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas.

[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

For me foreign policy is critically important.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

It is a big thing to work in a foreign film.

I am happy at Schalke, this is my foreign team.

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

I am not concerned about my foreign audience.

It is vital that people are aware of what the Foreign Office can and can't do.

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same. We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Foreign interventions always end badly.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.

Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!

I have lived too long in foreign parts

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

There are few forces for good as extensive and important as the United Nations. Being able to work with them and other global aid organisations for World Humanitarian Day is a humbling and extraordinary opportunity.

It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.

Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom of a more profound misalignment. The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. [...] That was absurd.