Quotes About Expats

#1. There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back home. Successive governments have, in fact, been training them to export them rather than working on the economy to welcome them home.

Miguel Syjuco

#2. I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#3. Expats of any country are quick to lose their sense of humour, beaten down by a lifetime of defending the land they no longer live in.

Bill Carter

#4. For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Mary Schmich

#5. America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

Ivan Krastev

#6. A less expensive option that expats still trust is Sen Sok University Hospital.

Lina Goldberg

#7. He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

#8. Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

#9. Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.

Lesley M.M. Blume

#10. As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

Tim Pratt

#11. Random acts of kindness show that even amidst the hustle and bustle, Paris inhabitants are more welcoming that their reputation gives them credit for.

Vicki Lesage

#12. I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

Vicki Lesage

#13. Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

Judith M Bardwick

#14. So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

#15. The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

#16. I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

Grace Jones

#17. Your future is always more valuable than today, the sooner you realise that the better

Steve Douglas

#18. If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. I'd love to go visit the 'Lord Of The Rings' set! That's something that we always want to do, but we don't ever have the time.

Mikey Way

#20. All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have individual tastes, tastes are not universal.

Ravindra Shukla

#21. The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy ... which is good.

Walid Jumblatt

#22. I hate that, when people pretend to be asking questions, but they've already decided what the answers are." I

Elizabeth Buhmann

#23. Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#24. The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

Ismail Serageldin

#25. I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Jimmy Rushing