Country Quotes - Page 25

• Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

  George R. Roberts

  Second Chance, Partnership, Social

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  Maj Sjowall

  Jobs, Sweden, Able

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• I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Years, Different, Three

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• People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the people of Dunfermline and West Fife have spoken for the rest of the country with their views on the Labour government.

  Willie Rennie

  Government, Views, Long

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• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  War, Men, Lost

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• There is no country that has the best men.

  Alicia Machado

  Men

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Flower, Men, Lakes

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

  Henri La Fontaine

  Hymns, Shepherds, Slaughterhouses

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Sheep, Doors, Organization

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• Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Military, Way, Armament

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• So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Military, Law, Long

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• I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

  Edward VII

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

  Arthur Cravan

  Memories, Cities, Color

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• People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.

  Peter Cushing

  Animal, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

  Emily Murphy

  Believe, Race, Canada

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• I love my country and I love my league.

  Al Davis

  League

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• Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting and more than 20 others that teach the history of art?

  Gamal El-Ghitani

  Art, Issues, States

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• We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

  Zakaria Tamer

  Believe, Organization, Political

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• I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

  Julian Clary

  Book, Writing, Would Be

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• I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.

  John Nance Garner

  Two, Done, Bills

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• Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  People, Feel Good, Doe

  "I am an African". Interview with Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

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• I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Political, Ready, Position

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• But I have always been ready to serve my country.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Ready

  "Kosovo assembly elects president" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. April 07, 2011.

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• As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

  Jalal Talabani

  Past, Iraq, Differences

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• Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.

  Skylar Laine

  Running, Veins

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