Foreign Quotes
1571 quotes by 1108 authors
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you…
— Sarah Dessen
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Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?
— Richelle Mead
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe…
— Bill Hicks
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I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in…
— Neil Gaiman
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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
— Pat Conroy
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Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk…
— Frances Mayes
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I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of…
— Terry Pratchett
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Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock’ supposed…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Shigure:"A summer home like this by the lake, you half expect JASON to show up!" Yuki: "There he goes again..." Kyo: (Thinking to himself) Jieison...Jaysun?…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law…
— Mark Levin
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The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every…
— John Pilger
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I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.
— Augusten Burroughs
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It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she…
— Sarah Dessen
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