Foreign Quotes

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my armsâ€”or, more… — Amanda Lindhout
We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that… — Nelson Mandela
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events… — John F. Kennedy
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They… — Mark Twain
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language. — Langston Hughes
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around… — Malcolm X
Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl. — Cleveland Amory
It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players. — Sepp Blatter
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships. — Seneca the Younger
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp,… — Seneca the Younger
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy. — Geraldine Ferraro
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice… — Geraldine Ferraro
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much… — Harold MacMillan
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had… — John Stuart Mill
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. — Ernst Mach
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the… — Florence King
English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant. — Kevin Keegan
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. — Paul Theroux
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a… — Rudolf Arnheim

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