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Quotes About Foreign

Fuori la notte era un enorme sogno estraneo.
~ Raymond Carver
It takes a little time to get a visa to Mexico. They don't let just anybody in.
~ Raymond Chandler
Zeal implied a strict adherence to the Torah and the Law, a refusal to serve any foreign master—to serve any human master at all—and an uncompromising devotion to the sovereignty of God.
~ Reza Aslan
Politicians who invent external threats from foreign powers, in order to scare up economic or voter support for themselves, might find that a potentially colliding meteor answers their ignoble purpose just as well as an Evil Empire, an Axis of Evil, or the more nebulous abstraction 'Terror', with the added benefit of encouraging international co-operation rather than divisiveness
~ Richard Dawkins
In fact, I didn't like traveling first class at all. Yes, it was nice to have a bathroom in a hotel and fine service at breakfast...but none of it seemed foreign enough for me. It was all so pleasantly bland that I felt as if I were back on the SS America. I don't like it when everyone speaks perfect English; I'd much rather struggle with my phrasebook.
~ Julia Child
A cautionary tale I had carried with me from China, and which I firmly believed, was that anyone who attempted to have a foreign lover would be drugged and carted back to China in a jute sack.
~ Jung Chang
They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.
~ Bruce Springsteen
It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.
~ Frank Knox
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
~ John Jay Chapman
Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.
~ Peter DeFazio
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
~ William Petty
We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.
~ Rand Paul
Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
~ Chanakya
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
~ Bill Shuster
There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
~ R. C. Sproul
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
~ Zebulon Pike
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.
~ Edward Gibbon
Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.
~ William Shakespeare
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
~ Pat Conroy
Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.
~ Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
~ Hannah Arendt
Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
~ George Washington
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
~ Hu Jintao