Country Quotes · Page 199

the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure

— Steve Harvey

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

— Narendra Modi

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

— Jazz Jennings

I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares. I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot…

— Glenn Beck

In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

— Anne Robinson

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines.

— Tony Meloto

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest…

— Randall Robinson

There is no way the Americans are going to be able to carry out a full scale war against Iraq and at…

— Ahmed Rashid

It was really tough back then in Croatia to watch the NBA games because we were not that powerful of a country.…

— Bojan Bogdanovic

“A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea. Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer…

— Judith Fertig

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be…

— Marco Rubio

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other…

— Mitchell Reiss

I like geography. I think I know every country in the world. If someone from another country plays for my team, I…

— Vlade Divac

World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them…

— Milton Friedman

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not…

— Shirley Chisholm

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat,…

— Michelle Obama

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing…

— Ezra Pound

On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness…

— Wallace Stegner

If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I…

— Frederick Marryat

People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to…

— Heidi Julavits

Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There…

— Vladimir Putin

Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.

— Wendy Long

Luxembourg is such a small country that we always have to reinvent ourselves and take on a certain risk to succeed.

— Etienne Schneider

I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write.

— Hank Williams III

“Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in.”

— Steven Magee

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

— Deborah Joy Winans

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

— Margaret Thatcher

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -…

— James Monroe

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

— Edward Snowden

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what…

— Jonah Goldberg

Is there an actor who wouldn't want to sing on one of the top-rated shows in the country?

— Mike O'Malley

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

— Swami Vivekananda

Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.

— Gegard Mousasi

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

— Alexis Tsipras

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

— Raymond Williams

The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.

— Yance Ford

Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed!

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan