Quotes About Province

In this province Sandoval laid the foundation of a town, which, by the desire of Cortes, he named Medellin, after the latter's native place, in Estremadura.

What would later become modern Greece was at the time a backward and isolated province of the Ottoman Empire with few towns, far removed from all this intellectual ferment.

Me das risa, pobre. Tus determinaciones trágicas, esa manera de andar golpeando las puertas como una actriz de tournées de provincia, uno se pregunta si realmente crees en tus amenazas, tus chantajes repugnantes, tus inagotables escenas patéticas untadas de lágrimas y adjetivos y recuentos.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein.

The challenge of Mosul and Nineveh is the considerable number of ethnic groups, religious sects, tribes, and other elements that make up the province.

It is a common proverb, that many true words are spoken in jest, and it may be relied upon by all slave makers, that the people of this province are too enlightened and spirited, much longer to submit to Tyrants.

His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

If hunting was his province, mind-seeking was mine.

We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights.

Health care decisions are the sole province of an individual, her family, her doctor and her faith. Fear of the law has no place in the equation.

But elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means. Events between soul and soul are not God's direct province: they are under the influence either of Fortune, or of virtue.

In three centuries the Foundation had grown from a private project of a small group of scientists to a tentacular trade empire sprawling deep into the Galaxy and half a year had flung it from its heights to the status of another conquered province.

THE FOUR KINGDOMS The name given to those portions of the Province of Anacreon which broke away from the First Empire in the early years of the Foundational Era to form independent and short-lived kingdoms. The largest and most powerful of these was Anacreon itself which in area … … Undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of the history of the Four Kingdoms involves the strange society forced temporarily upon it during the administration of Salvor Hardin …

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

I've always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions - I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.

Flattery is the province of fools—those who give it and those who believe it.

With the division of Central Asia between Russia and China, the historic Turkic territories of the Tar?m basin and vicinity passed under Chinese rule in 1759 as Xinjiang, the "new province"—a province larger than Alaska and three times the size of France.43

Demand may be a suitable subject for psychologists, supply may be the province of engineers or management scientists; both are beyond the scope of economics.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene — and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. … Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.