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Quotes About Foreign

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1
~ Daniel Yergin
la ayuda exterior no es un medio muy efectivo de abordar el fracaso de los países del mundo hoy en día. Todo lo contrario. Los países necesitan instituciones políticas y económicas inclusivas para romper el ciclo de la pobreza.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Russians. They were in Germany
~ David Baldacci
Stop trusting the freaking Russians. They are not our friend.
~ David Baldacci
elevator. "Foreign
~ David Baldacci
Look. Studies show FEAR sets attitudes/tolerance to change. Fearful people reject foreign, alien, strange. Circle wagons. Pull in horizons. Horizons of time. Of tolerance. Of risk. Of Dreams.
~ David Brin
This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.
~ David Foster Wallace
Here is how to sit through small openings of your father's first art films, surrounded by surly foreign cigarette smoke and conversations so pretentious you literally cannot believe them, you're sure you have misheard them.
~ David Foster Wallace
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot speak your england.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The Bolsheviks do not represent Russia, they represent an international conception of human affairs entirely foreign and indeed hostile to anything we know of civilisation;
~ Winston S. Churchill
Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began to thrive, under the protection of more than four hundred thousand Italian and native troops.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Foreign Minister cited the Baltic States, in which to-day, one year after the occupation by the Russians, the entire intelligentsia had been wiped out and really terrible conditions prevailed.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Only what is human can truly be foreign. The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I foresee death by culture shock.
~ Woody Allen
For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.
~ Woody Allen
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it
~ Christopher Morley
It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender.
~ Clarice Lispector
How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?
~ Claudia Rankine
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
~ Cleveland Amory
A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one's arse from one's elbow.
~ Cleveland Amory
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
~ Clifton Fadiman