Top 1200 Foreign Lands Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

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

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

I don't want foreign governments to support President Trump to influence our elections.

Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

At the same time as we were seizing the lands that we turned into Iraq, we were devising an interesting future for our new protectorate in Palestine, and simultaneously trying to pacify Ireland, where we hit upon the solution of partition in 1921, thereby securing a peaceful resolution to the conflict only 86 years later.

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

Foreign films have helped me because I've become identified with international stars.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

I think Barack Obama has been a terrible disappointment environmentally. It's very sobering to realize, as a westerner, that under the Obama administration, we now have more active oil and gas leases on public lands than Americans ever did. Obama has been worse.

Rather than relying on farmers, ranchers, outdoorsmen, lumberjacks, surveyors, oil workers, miners, or community leaders who have decades of land use experience, government policymakers turn to 25-year-olds with master's degrees in ecology and political science to run the country's public lands policy.

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

Takeout is a way to explore different lands and different cultures just by sitting in your home and ordering. I mean, there couldn't be an easier way to explore and I would advise people in this terrible time that this is a great form of entertainment to experience what's around you.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

No other country ties its hands in deporting foreign criminals as Britain does.

We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

I'd like to begin by thanking the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press for this Golden Globe.

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Foreign and domestic investors will come only when they know that you have enough power.

As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.

Foreign football is different and it has helped me evolve and mature, improving my attitude.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day. That all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture on to a ship and travel to explore and find new lands, this is your day. It's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

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