Foreign Quotes

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers… — Jean Batten
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last… — Dave Barry
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved… — Hyman Rickover
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition… — P.G. Wodehouse
All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts. — Hubert Green
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed. — Barack Obama
This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating. — George W. Bush
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it… — Yao Ming
Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because… — Natalie Portman
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague… — Hermann Hesse
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate… — Eugene Ionesco
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. — Ed O'Brien
How much for the bottle, put it on my tab. Hop out like a model all them foreign tags. Get so drunk and high, I… — Wiz Khalifa
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the… — Ravi Zacharias
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to… — Ayn Rand

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