Quotes of Extraneous - somelinesforyou

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! ”

- William Pitt

“ Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Domestic policy can only defeat us. Foreign policy can kill us. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ”

- L. P. Hartley

“ God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so. ”

- Plotinus

“ I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign. ”

- Paul Graham

“ Money is only irrelevant if you have it. ”

- Claire Danes

“ The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. ”

- Bible

“ I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. ”

- Mae West

“ Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. ”

- W. Averell Harriman

“ This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ”

- James Reston

“ The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. ”

- Tom Clark

“ The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. ”

- Unknown

“ For nothing human foreign was to him. ”

- James Thomson

“ Don't sell your military equipment to Taiwan,... Sell them all to me — I want them all. I have US$260 billion in foreign exchange reserves. ”

- Zhu Rongji

“ I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country. ”

- Ian Rush

“ Any aggression against our foreign guests represents a challenge to the rule of law and we will not permit it. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. ”

- Learned Hand

“ Well, you have to remember that, at least until Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism was not the sole organizing principle of American foreign policy. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. ”

- Conrad Black

“ I have traveled all over the world, about 70 countries, and meeting so many foreign people leads to a greater appreciation of their culture. ”

- Nigel Short

“ Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope. ”

- Tom Harkin

“ There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling. ”

- Elizabeth Dole

“ This action is foreign to the traditions of the Palestinian people. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ Without a free trade agreement, no one, not national or foreign firms, will invest. We have many things that need to get done, and all those who oppose the free trade accord need to tell me how the heck we're going to do them. ”

- Oscar Arias

“ Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ”

- Paul Eldridge
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