Quotes of: Foreign Keyword

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

Time

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Stephen Kinzer

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Fritz Sauckel

One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The names for syphilis, when it began its epidemic sweep through Europe in the last decade of the fifteenth century are an exemplary illustration of the nee...

Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel...

A Son of the Circus

You realize I can never sleep under this blanket with this thread as it is. The thought of it would plague me all night.' 'Were you going to?' he asks, looking over his shoulder at me. 'Well, I'm not going to now.' 'Suggesting you were going to at so...

Love and Other Foreign Words

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Raymond Bonner

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Robert Bourassa

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

Rebecca MacKinnon

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Lee Child

China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further.

Li Keqiang

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

Sepp Blatter

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Ella Maillart

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Corazon Aquino

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Charles C. Mann

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Peter Ustinov

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Robert Mueller

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Lamar S. Smith

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

Henry Paulson