Top 1200 Powerful Countries Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.

...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

That's something I've always wanted to do, compete against other countries.

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

Other countries have far greater problems than we have.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

It's not lost on me that I'm a Swedish guy from one of the coldest countries in the world.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

I do know this: other countries are eating our lunch.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I would also love to visit the Asian countries soon.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

[NATO countries] have no respect for our country. They will do it. They'll be happy to do it.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries