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Quotes About Foreign

Mixing native flora with a foreign plant oftentimes has tragic consequences,
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
There is that old joke. Why is there never a coup in the United States? Because there is no US embassy there.
~ Vijay Prashad
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
~ Virginia Woolf
A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.
~ Amy Chua
Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Why does he have a leash?" I asked. "A leash?" Julia looked confused. "A lead," Mark said. "That's what they call a leash here.
~ Rachel Cohn
It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
~ Federica Mogherini
The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.
~ Steve Hilton
We have not been a normal country when it comes to engagement in the world.
~ Ivo Daalder
The fact is that I loved being in England.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
I don't think, Donald Trump doesn't think, no one thinks that a foreign entity should be interfering with a foreign election.
~ Sean Spicer
All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'
~ Unknown
Il vento, venendo in città da lontano, le porta doni inconsueti, di cui s'accorgono solo poche anime sensibili, come i raffreddati del fieno, che starnutano per pollini di fiori d'altre terre.
~ Italo Calvino
L'estraneità di ciò che non sei più o non possiedi più t'aspetta al varco dei luoghi estranei e non posseduti.
~ Italo Calvino
though there are some foods you don't know, mentioned by name, which the translator has decided to leave in the original; for example, schoëblintsjia
~ Italo Calvino
His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual.
~ J. G. Ballard
My father's tongue, forever foreign to me.
~ Damon Galgut
Thunder in the distance, like a crowd shouting in a foreign language.
~ Damon Galgut
snarled up in firefights with the Pashtun Taliban, who were never a threat to the American homeland.
~ Unknown
carrying on a war in someone else's country, a country in no way implicated in attacking our own or anyone else's. To continue to do that against the intense wishes of most of the inhabitants of that country began to seem to me morally wrong.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
~ Zephyr Teachout
For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.
~ Evan Osnos
Those who want to 'drain the swamp,' should be praising Mueller for enforcing FARA violations and, in return, prompting more lobbyists to register as foreign agents when required.
~ Katie Pavlich