Top 1200 Foreign Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

I think I would have a very good relationship with many foreign leaders.

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

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

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

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

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

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

Land is everything.

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

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

Our foreign aid to other nations should never be used to harm.

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

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

The interference of a foreign country in our elections is an assault on the government of the United States.

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

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

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

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

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

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

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

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

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

My style probably makes me look like a foreign-return guy.

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

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

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

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.

My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

The song and the land are one.

Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

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

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.

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

I took an oath of office to protect Arizona from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

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

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

We have to go into fundamentalist mosques; we have to stop foreign financing of Islamist groups.

I believe that the overwhelming majority of Puerto Rico wants to be Puerto Ricans. I have been in five different states in the United States, and I have found young Puerto Ricans in the states who really love Puerto Rico, who really want to do something for Puerto Rico. And for me, Puerto Rico has to be the promised land of all Puerto Ricans, whether we are in the United States or wherever we are at. But this has to be the promised land. Annexation will never be the answer.

If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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