Top 1200 Foreign Exchange Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

I tell directors, 'I can't promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.' When you work for a studio, they pay you a lot of money, but in exchange for that, they tell you what to do.

Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae, at the start of January - both were celebrated with parties and the exchange of gifts.

A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

It seems to me that a market exchange rate which is not artificially controlled by central banks enables one to balance the interests of different market players - exporters and importers, investors, borrowers, lenders.

It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

But I can definitely say that when I go back to China, I feel very foreign there.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

When foreign governments hold Americans they always claim it's a criminal case.

I had the opportunity to come to the United States of America as an exchange student, so I had to come for four months, work, and then go back.

We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when I was 17, after I didn't act for half a year because I came to an exchange student program in the US, and I realized how much I missed it.

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

In America as a foreign actor it's very difficult to get into main roles.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.