Quotes of: Western-countries Keyword

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!

Speak

That for them, that war won't ever be over. I don't think any real war ever is - large, small, between countries, between people. Even the wars inside ourselves. Something always remains.

The Sisters

... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsession for new war.

Steppenwolf

Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.

Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

The Tale of Genji

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets

And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?

Rebel Belle

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

Rocket Boys

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.

Red

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

The True Meaning of Smekday

If I asked people how many people there are in the world, I’ll bet more than half would reply, “More than half.” True, but would they also know Georgia is a state, a country, and a painter?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Shaving a sheep is considered foreplay in some countries. But I don’t consider foreplay at all, not even before sex.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Some people collect cars. I collect unemployment. Once my collection gets large enough, I’m going to start a country like the United States.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter...

Unknown

It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.

Voice of Reason

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

Voice of Reason

The worst form of inequality, is the inequality of ideals A people united by the same ideal, irrespective of religion, social status, race, political preference or sexual, would have the strength to fight for a fairer country.

Welcome to My Heart

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

Winter's Tale

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

Zeitoun

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our ...

Barack Obama