Quotes About Foreign

Because she knew nothing about the authors, she assumed they were contemporaries, unless something indicated this was obviously impossible. I was astonished at how much older literature can actually be read as if it were contemporary; to anyone ignorant of history, it would be easy to see ways of life in earlier times simply as ways of life in foreign countries.

Becoming aware of foreign customs, however, does not always have a beneficial effect. In the 17th Century, when the Manchus conquered China, it was the custom among the Chinese for the women to have small feet, and among the Manchus for the men to wear pigtails. Instead of each dropping their own foolish custom, they each adopted the foolish custom of the other, and the Chinese continued to wear pigtails until they shook off the domination of the Manchus in the revolution of 1911.

Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or foreign policy.

My dad originally wanted to be a foreign correspondent before he got into politics. We have very similar personalities, so I think I get a lot of that interest from him.

You can draw a straight line from that blend of kooky conspiracy theory, anti–foreign alliances, and instinctual victimhood to Donald Trump's worldview

Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

This, to Netanyahu's mind, was why America was so crucial: it was the only country in the world in which all foreign affairs were primarily domestic; the only country in the world in which—by dint of its immigrant demography and democratic system—the foreign did not exist.

que éste era un país donde un hombre manda la parada por el hecho de venir del norte; que para la mitad de sus huéspedes, pomposos y arribistas, estar en el hotel era de alguna manera estar en el extranjero. Así era: una habitación en el hotel de la familia Guterman era, para la mayoría de aquellos criollos pretenciosos, la única oportunidad de ver el mundo, el único papel de importancia que podían tener en su minúscula obrita de teatro.

Meine Füße, tastend beim ersten Kontakt mit bosnischem Boden: Alles klar. Trägt.

In the wake of their first major electoral success, the Nazis lost no time in demonstrating arrogance and brutality. Yet, to many foreign observers, it seemed that they had also injected a new dynamism into the country.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

For me, I always loved summer movies. I love indie movies, foreign films, but there's definitely a part of me that loves summer movies, ever since I was a kid.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

U.A.E.'s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities.

I am genuinely interested in China, I wanted to see it visually.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.

We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside forces will not interfere.

It is illegal to ask a foreign power to interfere in a domestic election.