Foreign Quotes

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a writer is a foreign country — Marguerite Duras
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing… — Tom Waits
I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be… — James Patterson
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and… — Taylor Caldwell
...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology. — Fareed Zakaria
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when… — Samuel Adams
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be… — Bertolt Brecht
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
Like a word on a page that youâ€™ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared… — Sarah Dessen
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has… — Milan Kundera
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to… — James Madison
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the… — Brian Aldiss
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a… — Theodore Roosevelt
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care,… — Nhat Hanh
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language… — Barbara Kingsolver

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