Quotes About Foreign

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

Connor hadn't thought he'd need an interpreter in Scotland.

had become foreign to him.  Maybe his

London. For some reason the word didn't seem to have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had.

Wadigimbi has told me on several occasions that journalists are a waste of time, which is certainly an arguable point of view, but surely not one that the director of the foreign press centre should hold.

Come along, you need to sleep," he argued, but she pushed his hands away. "I'm just resting my eyes." "And Napoleon just had a mild interest in foreign policy. Come on.

Certainly, all esoterism appears to be tinged with heresy from the point of view of the corresponding exoterism, but this obviously does not disqualify it if it is intrinsically orthodox, and thus in conformity with truth as such and with the traditional symbolism to which it pertains; it is true that the most authentic esoterism can incidentally depart from this framework and refer to foreign symbolisms, but it cannot be syncretistic in its very substance.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

si tu lèches le sable d'un pays étranger quand tu arrives là-bas en visite tu repousse ses mauvais génies et tourments

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

The Barbary states were already at war with America, and they seemed to understand only one kind of diplomacy—the kind that was accompanied by a cannon.

To Santa Anna, the Texians were ungrateful foreign immigrants

It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States in the policeman of the world.

You got a French guy here byeeeeeeeeeeeee

My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write...

Arriving half-drunk in a foreign place is hard on the nerves. You have a feeling that something is wrong, that you can't get a grip.

As I came over the brink of the cliff, a few children laughed, an old hag began screeching, and the men just stared. Here was a white man with 12 Yankee dollars in his pocket and more than $ 500 worth of camera gear slung over his shoulders, hauling a typewriter, grinning, sweating, no hope of speaking the language, no place to stay—and somehow they were going to have to deal with me.

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

Every country has a founding mythology. For Americans, it starts with our first president's youthful encounter with a cherry tree and refusal to tell a lie. Mr. Trump would do well to find inspiration in that story, which goes to the heart of what makes America different - and our foreign policy effective - around the world.

'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet.