Actual life Quote by Marcel Proust

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

— Shannon Lucid

Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

— Paul Virilio

If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations.…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive…

— Wangechi Mutu

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

— Gertrude Stein

Nobody is bigger than the nation or can be allowed to be larger than life.

— Shatrughan Sinha

We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is…

— J. D. Vance

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works…

— Eugenie de Guerin

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's…

— Ed Miliband

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

— Gertrude Stein

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

— Robert J. Sawyer