Quotes of: Asian-countries Keyword

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

Tom Hodgkinson

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

Marta

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Pema Chodron

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Alice Walker

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Chief Joseph

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Carolyn McCarthy

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Pat Buchanan

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Sebastian Coe

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly lines of woody swales. One might imagine that little is to be seen from a plane at night, but above the clouds the Milk...

About This Life

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — "were hatching and proclaiming their ideas? Anyone who now tri...

Rituals

At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2011, as died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on that black day. The terrorist attacks led to trillions of dollars b...

Practical Ethics

Motorcycle Cop: Calm down, ma'am. Kim Lee: I am calm. Motorcycle Cop: I need to see your registration and insurance. Kim Lee: Why? Not my fault! It's her fault! She do this! Ria: [approaching] My fault? Motorcycle Cop: Ma'am, you really need to wait ...

Crash

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Cities & Countries

We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.

Called To Excel

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

Flaubert's Parrot

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

The Gate to Women's Country

Congratulations, Mousey, you’ve managed to insult every marsupial in the country in just under three kilometers.

Alice in Wonderland