Quotes About Foreign

He projected American power through regional allies like Iran, Zaire, and Indonesia, and turned a blind eye as dictators in those countries oppressed and looted with abandon.

Pepperleigh always read the foreign news -- the news of things that he couldn't alter -- as a form of wild and stimulating torment.

I'm sure trying to blackmail the president of a foreign nation qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors.

In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried back to Europe by Alexander the Great, and widely used in Mediterranean empires.

Most adults never master a foreign language, especially the phonology—hence the ubiquitous foreign accent.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.

This indicates how far the law has become dubious. People have a sense of being under foreign occupation, and in this relation the criminal appears a kindred soul.

The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

ce vieux Grec...prophétisant l'avenir de cette nation, qui fut toujours un moyen ou un prétexte dans les mains des puissances européennes

Foreign distribution is a major aspect of financing films. If you're flooding an entire country with cam rips DVDs before the movie is released, that will affect the bottom line eventually.

It's oftentimes the case that relief workers, people who've been involved in development projects and foreign assistance, have a real understanding of foreign cultures that the military desperately needs if we're going to be able to work effectively.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

There is nothing remarkable about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a journalist, this was a regular occurrence.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

There isn't enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase engine efficiency.

The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

Foreign football is different and it has helped me evolve and mature, improving my attitude.

From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from fossil fuels.

To be honest, it felt so distant from us, we din't give it much thought. Our world was made up of our immediate neighbours and foreign meant the people of the midlands or fenlands.