Country Quotes · Page 335

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the…

— Paul Stanley

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

— Simone Weil

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

— Armstrong Williams

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

— Avicii

What I've accomplished for myself is beyond my wildest dreams. What I accomplished for my country is one of my most proud…

— Li Na

Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.

— Li Lu

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

— Jennifer Granholm

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

— Kevin Keegan

I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to…

— Christopher Bollen

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and…

— Laurie Lee

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring…

— John Muir

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry.…

— Langston Hughes

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking…

— Junot Diaz

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when…

— Marcy Kaptur

I drove to Nashville a few times, met with some people and hung out, went to the Opry, and that kind of…

— Luke Combs

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank…

— John Mellencamp

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is…

— Tulsi Gabbard

We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for…

— Vladimir Putin

After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government…

— Wes Streeting

Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of…

— David Brooks

The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their…

— Malcolm Jenkins

More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to…

— Barack Obama

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup…

— Lionel Messi

I love country music. Like, I really, really, really love country music.

— Eric Swalwell

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to…

— William Wordsworth

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

— Federica Mogherini

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

— Corrine Brown

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for...

— Cindy Sheehan

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

— Will Rogers

I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

— Gary Rossington

When you are a queen in your own country, why would you want to go anywhere else?

— Sameera Reddy

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

— Mohammed Mahdi Akef

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

— Keith Olbermann

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

— Zinedine Zidane

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

— Indira Gandhi

Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.

— Daniel Altman

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

— Steven Curtis Chapman