Foreign Quotes

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.

I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.

Someday, I will be brave enough to say these things to you in person. For now, I remain in happy, quiet contemplation over you and can say tonight that I just might love you. Or could someday.

Life is truly lived only when we discover other faiths, festivals, languages and cultures.

Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

Screw technicolor, red, and foreign languages. I dream in status updates.

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

The auto immune disease is like politics in an organization, attacking own cells thinking it's foreign!

...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.

What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.

It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.

the Devil's hand directs our every movethe things we loathed become the things we love

Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.

Come dance with me, " he says, taking my hand, and someday I'll explain to him that I already am.