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Quotes About Countries

We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
~ Boris Yeltsin
The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.
~ Frank Lautenberg
En Inglaterra, o en países puritanos, se entiende. Allí hace falta el sol, que es, sin duda algún, fuente natural de toda felicidad
~ Roberto Arlt
un tipo con una extraña predisposición a sobrevivir un poeta latinoamericano que al llegar la noche se echa en su jergón y sueña un sueño maravilloso que atraviesa países y años un sueño maravilloso que atraviesa enfermedades y ausencias
~ Roberto Bolano
of silence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of
~ Lisa Scottoline
Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still.
~ Lois Lowry
Una vida así requería una autoestima exagerada. Suponía tener cantidades excesivas de esperanza y desesperación, y ponerlas al tuntún, como países tercermundistas del continente de las emociones.
~ Lorrie Moore
Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are "We the people," its most important principle, freedom.
~ Ronald Reagan
It would be truer to say that the citizens' self-respect, in the two countries, is tied up with different attitudes; in our country it depends on his management of his own affairs and in Japan it depends on repaying what he owes to accredited benefactors.
~ Ruth Benedict
The terrible fatalism which had overcome me of late had taken on an even more terrible form; drowning in the disintegration of family, of both countries to which I had belonged, of everything which can sanely be called real, lost in the sorrow of my filthy unrequited love, I sought out the oblivion of - I'm making it sound too noble; no otorund phrases must be used. Baldly, then: I rode the night-streets of the city, looking for death.
~ Salman Rushdie
When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.
~ Liya Kebede
The Church is blessed with a good stomach, has gobbled down whole countries even, yet never suffered from repletion; only the Church is able to digest treasures of wickedness, dear ladies.
~ Johann Wolfgang Gothe
The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the question Has never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Indeed, in many OECD countries unemployment was very low. One prime minister of New Zealand claimed to know personally all the unemployed in his country; this may well have been true, since according to International Labour Organisation (ILO) statistics, in 1955 there were only fifty-five unemployed people in his country.
~ Anthony B. Atkinson
Analogies with the past are never properly accurate and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading, but in pure chronology I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s or 1930s again... This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.
~ Anthony Daniels
It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
~ Lee R. Raymond
I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.
~ Valerie Cruz
The United States is an outlier in the size and scope of its loan infrastructure; in many peer countries, higher education is seen as a public good and a college degree is low-cost or free.
~ Annie Lowrey
Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but where they ask for our assistance we'll give it.
~ Hilary Benn
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.
~ Neil Gaiman
Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
~ Ali Bongo Ondimba
We think it is possible to get the benefits of a customs union but still have the flexibility for the U.K. to pursue an independent trade policy on top of that with other countries outside the E.U.
~ David Lidington