Foreign Quotes

1571 quotes by 1108 authors

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Go and see whether the Doctor is about,â€™ said Jack, â€˜and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.â€™ Which… — Patrick O'Brian
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. — Barbara Kingsolver
She is written in a foreign tongue. — Henry James
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political… — George Washington
Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support… — C.S. Lewis
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you… — Italo Calvino
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. — C.S. Lewis
I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great… — C.S. Lewis
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. — Leslie Poles Hartley
But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom… — C.S. Lewis
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath… — Vikram Chandra
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing… — Yann Martel
Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me… — Sherwood Smith
The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough… — Monique Truong
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as… — Paulo Coelho
I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in… — Howard Zinn
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He… — Paul Simon

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