Top 1200 Foreign Lands Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.

Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.

Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building.

Our foreign policy must be rooted in a love for all of humanity.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

My focus personally has been to be a conservationist, which is to save species, protect wild lands, sometimes bring animals into assurance colonies in the wild - like California Condors for example - and put them back in the wild. It's very different from animal rights.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

There are not a lot of German players out there who are successful in a foreign country.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.