Foreign Quotes

• It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

  

  Alfred Polgar
  • Foreign
  • Homeland
  • Emigrant

• Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Conviction

• If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia, 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
  • Christian
  • Dramatic
  • Accounts

• Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Situations
  • Awkward
  • Foreign

• Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

  

  Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Dependent
  • Holding
  • Channels

• War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.

  

  Walter Millis
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Challenges

• The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Escape
  • Custom
  • Foreign

• We need to recognize that although terrorism is real, there are many other dangers out there. And terrorism should not be the only driver or necessarily the leading driver of our foreign policy and especially of our domestic politics.

  

  Daniel Byman
  • Needs
  • Should
  • Danger

• There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Policy
  • Commit
  • Shortcuts

• I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

  

  Michael Parenti
  • Confused
  • Horrible
  • Believes

• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • Firsts
  • Policy
  • Foreign

• We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Responsibility
  • Foreign
  • Bipartisanship

• Scotland will not be a foreign country after independence, any more than Ireland, Northern Ireland, England or Wales could ever be “foreign countries” to Scotland.

  

  Alex Salmond
  • Countries
  • Scotland
  • Foreign

• We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Challenges
  • Production
  • Developing

• No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Politics
  • Foreign
  • Rogues

• When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.

  

  Misha Collins
  • Kitchen
  • Students
  • Pizza

• Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. ‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’ I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Reputation
  • Members
  • Damage

• My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

  

  Morey Amsterdam
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Perplexed

• I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries. Country Cartoon Age Certain Entertaining Play Stills Wells Brackets Foreign Countries

  

  Walter Lantz
  • Countries
  • Cartoon
  • Entertaining

• I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Foreign
  • Correspondent

• I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Hearing
  • Foreign
  • Confirmation

• The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.

  

  Ravi Subramanian
  • Opportunity
  • Working
  • Investment

• I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Convince
  • Governments
  • Officer

• Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Country
  • Purpose
  • Realist

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