Foreign Quotes

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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English… — Joseph Hume
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot
Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to… — Alan Wolfe
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. — Erma Bombeck
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history… — Gerald Brenan
I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which… — Alfred Kastler
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has… — Warren Christopher
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love. — Heather Wilson
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign… — Fredric Jameson
I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either. — Victoria Pratt
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore… — Lee Kuan Yew
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether… — Oswald J. Smith
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. — Aldrich Ames
When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a… — Medea Benjamin
It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. — Ted Demme
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can… — Edward T. Hall
Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often — Steve McClaren

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