Quotes about country
country baby fighting
I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus. Gabriel Byrne
country america way
When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.
country autumn cows
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
country keys needs
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
country latin europe
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
country book kind
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
country america people
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
country hate rivalry
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead. Fred Armisen
country countries-of-the-world hollywood
Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't. Frank Capra
country believe usa
There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.
country opportunity giving
You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research. Frank Press
country problem well-dressed
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
country names glory
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton. George III
country fall self
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.
country witty holy
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy. George Herbert
country military california
There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore. Chris Hedges
country self government
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.
country self retreat
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
country giving-up military
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.
country fashion mistake
So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake. Christopher Bailey
country queens kings
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz. Christopher Columbus
country appreciation military
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. Christine Gregoire
country people economy
We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people. Christine Lagarde
country
Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.
country people risk
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
country difficulty various
The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.
country decision skins
I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
country brother fall
Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.
country fashion years
Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere. Christina Rossetti
country thinking missing
I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry. Christian Wiman
country self important
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. Christiane Amanpour
country murder crime
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
country home world
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.