Foreign Quotes

1571 Foreign quotes by 1108 unique authors

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become… — Muhammad Asad
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs.… — Swami Vivekananda
Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a… — Rick Perry
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works… — John F. Kennedy
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. — George Orwell
Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much… — Low Thia Khiang
I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. — Conrad Black
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some… — Peter HÃ¸eg
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. — Elbridge Gerry
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. — James M. Cain
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and… — Romano Prodi
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more… — H. L. Mencken
I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3?… — Brendan Rodgers
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to… — Virgil Goode
During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news… — Philip Gibbs
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees… — Stephen F. Hayes
Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the… — Victor Davis Hanson
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. — Tom C. Clark
Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the… — Judy Biggert
He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his… — Hooman Majd
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse… — Terry Pratchett
To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters… — Edward Snowden
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are… — George Orwell

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