Quotes About Region

The more the Iranians are seen to be dominating the region, the more it is going to inflame Sunni radicalism and fuel the rise of groups like the Islamic State.

Keep in mind that the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember.

We live in a region where everything is given to us, thanks to Providence, but where everything is bitter.

He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.

Lo sapeva già, ora lui le avrebbe detto che in futuro non ci sarebbe stata alcuna differenza fra quelle regioni, che presto nessuno avrebbe mosso un dito per quello per cui adesso si sacrificava la vita. Ma tutto ciò cosa cambiava? Una certa confidenza con il futuro è una forma di codardia. Credeva davvero che la gente sarebbe diventata più intelligente? Un po' sì, rispose Gauss. Per forza di cose. Ma viviamo in questo momento! Purtroppo, disse.

topographic conditions also played a major role in the prosperity of yeoman farmers in ancient Greece, enabling that region to become the cradle of Western democracy.

What Strong realized right away was that these were not Maya cities: The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture.

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.

I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

India' was merely a label of convenience, 'a name which we give to a great region including a multitude of different countries'.

I have a conflicted view on beer styles. As historical artifacts, they're endlessly fascinating to study. And I think that they generally represent confluences -- and compromises -- of technology, agriculture, cuisine, and geology that make the most of what a region has to offer. That means existing styles are usually quite wonderful to drink, and I'm all for that.

We no longer belong here, we are mutants, and our only choice is to become even more mutant so that we eventually leave and disappear from this region. We are nothing now but the residue of a defeated, conquered past and we are stubbornly holding on to old creeds, a few archaic rituals and the facade of western modernity.

The Golgi tendon organ detects increases in tension in the region and relays this information to the spinal cord, which then inhibits the muscle from contracting.

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

My priority will remain supporting those courageous individuals and organizations, among both Israelis and Palestinians, committed to bringing peaceful coexistence to the region.

The US invasion of Iraq, which was supposed to spread democracy throughout the region, actually had the opposite effect.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

Our greatest ally in the Pakistan region of turmoil is the moderate Muslim majority, who we must reach out to and embrace if we ever are to have peace for our children.