I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
An investment in your country’s education pays the best interest.
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.
People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not...
It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes ...
But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went then? I will tell you some day how I went! Did I murder the old woman? I murdered myself, not her! I crushed myself once for all, for ever.… But it was the...
And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks into old pillowcases. Not quite knowing the weight of truth in them much more. And things that I have let be a long time in the interests of happi...
They’d never scared him, really. When he was younger, he hadn’t known that there was anything different about them. By the time he was old enough to figure out that no one else could see them, he was also old enough to realize that being dead...
Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]
