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Quotes About Foreign

Her sister and gemæcce already had the beginning of a kin web here in a foreign land. They wouldn't be all alone.
~ Nicola Griffith
They took a moment, the grown man in clothes foreign to him and the young girl in splendour she could barely carry, and understood each other. He laughed.
~ Nicola Griffith
It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence
~ Noam Chomsky
An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
~ Norman Davies
The obsession with originality is a *coarse* scholarly egotism. Whoever is incapable of treating every foreign thought as though it were his own, and a personal thought as though it were foreign—is no true scholar.
~ Novalis
Herkesin istedi?i gibi ya?ad??? uzak ülkenin özlemini duyuyorum.
~ Unknown
In the beginning, long ago, he fled his country, one of those bland, flat communist lands, and as a young immigrant got hired to work on a whaling ship. At that time, he had only a few English words under his belt, intermittent pinpoints between "yes" and "no," just exactly enough to answer the simple grunts the guys on the ship would exchange among themselves.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Quelle douleur - chercher la parole perdue, Relever ces paupières douloureuses Et, la chaux dans le sang, rassembler pour les tribus étrangères L'herbe des nuits.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
the Zoltán utca and picked up a
~ Unknown
Go and see whether the Doctor is about,' said Jack, 'and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.' Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Oh, honey," the big man said. "Don't get yourself in a twit. Damfine is a kind of apple, innit?" He grinned around at the folks sitting at the bar. "Sort of foreign apple from off in Atur? They named it after Baron Damfine if I remember correct.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
This lack of empathy is a central hallmark of NPD in the same way that a fear of abandonment is central to BPD. Do not expect someone with NPD to listen to, commiserate with, or emotionally support you, whether in a crisis or in an ordinary conversation. This lack of empathy feels deeply foreign to most of us.
~ Unknown
Moje telo? mi je strano kao bilo koji drugi predmet - (ako ne i mnogo više -) a bliskije mi je, više prvotnije i prvobitnije JA od svake misli.
~ Paul Valery
When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country
~ Paula Fox
But for some of us who watched the shadows deepen all through that fall of 1936, there was no such thing as a foreign war.
~ Paula McLain
she confuses everything i am, shakes the change out of my pokets and makes me want to barter with foreign currency.
~ Unknown
He did not understand what went on in a Chinese heart, that something like this could happen. The Indians made more sense.
~ Unknown
After graduation she saw several active deployments in the Urban Rapid Suppression Force. Then her parents were killed by a drone bomb some bunch of anti-imperialist anarchist whack-jobs launched at the sneering symbol of their evil foreign economic oppressors—or, in English, the Italian remote drone systems factory where her father worked.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
~ Peter Høeg
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from
~ Peter Høeg
Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.
~ Unknown
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. When I start talking about Qaanaaq, to myself or to others, I again start to lose what has never been truly mine.
~ Peter Høeg