Top 100 Quotes About Being Foreign
#1. Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman
#2. There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.
Amy Heckerling
#3. The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.
Pico Iyer
#4. Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#5. American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
Samantha Power
#6. I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.
Jon Stewart
#7. My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.
Milton Berle
#8. It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.
Elie Metchnikoff
#9. Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#10. No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Margaret Sanger
#11. Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago was created by the poet's authority, just as it might have been created in life by the authority of chance.
Odysseus Elytis
#12. If we don't establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country.
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Kidding?" He asked; rolling the foreign word over in his mouth like he tasted something sour.
"Yeah, you know. Joking. Ha ha ha." I said.
Micalea Smeltzer
#14. Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.
Alexei Navalny
#15. Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
Octavio Paz
#16. If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.
Craig S. Keener
#17. When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.
Hillary Clinton
#18. And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said.
Michael Chabon
#19. The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry A. Kissinger
#20. Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
Gene Sharp
#21. I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
Aneurin Bevan
#22. Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.
William Hartung
#23. Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country "an eternal pregnancy"; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define.
G. Willow Wilson
#24. Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.
Ron Paul
#25. Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#27. As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#28. Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.
Peter Newmark
#29. My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair.
CM Punk
#30. She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.
Christy A. Campbell
#31. Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul
#32. Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.
Brie Larson
#33. If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Lewis H. Lapham
#34. How had I lost so much in such a short period of time? It would seem like leaving your family, living in some foreign place, and being separated from the person you love should be events that take years to roll into place, not just a day.
Kiera Cass
#35. [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.
Emmett Tyrrell
#36. If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?
David Hume
#37. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
Vera Nazarian
#38. Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.
Tom Metzger
#39. Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor ... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
Luc Dardenne
#40. I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.
Barack Obama
#41. The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
Pete Sessions
#42. It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#43. The moral and spiritual individuality comes here to live a painful adventure, full of frustrations, a dramatic experience of living in foreign lands, dominated by a constant, painful feeling of absence from its true home; a feeling of nostalgia, thirst and lack of fulfilment.
Paul Amadeus Dienach
#44. According to Bastardi, human-induced climate change contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.
Joe Bastardi
#45. But if we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.
George Washington
#46. Effective foreign policy has always involved the use of both sticks and carrots, and finding the right balance between the two is more art than science.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#47. Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
Rush Limbaugh
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Dara Jones
#49. I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
Ted Cruz
#50. I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
Newt Gingrich
#51. After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
Paul Nurse
#52. To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
A.W. Tozer
#53. I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Storm Jameson
#54. As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.
Jimmy Carter
#55. There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
Joseph Hume
#56. Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
Seth Berkley
#57. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?
Langston Hughes
#58. It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
Gary Bauer
#59. TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
Walt Whitman
#60. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.
Marco Rubio
#61. It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
Kit Bond
#62. There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
R.C. Sproul
#63. I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.
Lee Min-ho
#64. Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael Mandelbaum
#65. Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.
Sherwood Smith
#66. The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#67. If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.
Jesse Ventura
#68. It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.
Mary Roach
#69. Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.
John McCain
#70. Standing, I turned to face my father. "It's the same as the scent on Moore. It's definitely a foreign cat, but it's ... more, somehow." Ethan snickered at my unintentional pun, but I ignored him.
Rachel Vincent
#71. And Larry Burlew was a slug. She'd join the Foreign Legion before she'd marry Larry Burlew.
Janet Evanovich
#72. She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.
Fatema Mernissi
#73. There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.
Edward Snowden
#74. If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
David Rockefeller
#75. Not quite understanding how, he knew what he needed to do. He didn't get it. The feeling - the epiphany - was a strange one, foreign and familiar at the same time. But it felt ... right.
James Dashner
#76. I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
Ted Cruz
#77. The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.
Ron Paul
#78. The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.
George Galloway
#79. Tis often seen
Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign lands.
William Shakespeare
#80. The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.
Carlos Wallace
#81. My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.
Evelyn Glennie
#82. We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.
Gerald R. Ford
#83. The large and rising offshore wealth translates to substantial losses in fiscal revenue. By my estimate, the fraud perpetuated through unreported foreign accounts each year costs about $200 billion to governments throughout the world (see fig.
Gabriel Zucman
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#85. Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country ... A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.
John Willis Ellis
#86. The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
John Lewis Gaddis
#87. I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
Mary Gordon
#88. Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.
Aimee Mullins
#89. It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
#90. For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.
Mitt Romney
#91. The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
Stephen Kinzer
#92. Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes half the human race.
Jack Holland
#93. My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.
Amanda Donohoe
#94. Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.
Robert Dallek
#95. Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.
Dave Barry
#97. In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#98. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
Ron Paul
#99. The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.
John M. McHugh
#100. Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Craig Thompson
