Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

We strive to create the best possible experience for all students. Students have usually had a very positive response to the overall study abroad experience. As the student participation increases, staff support will be adjusted accordingly.

We believe that it is important for American travelers to be very vigilant when they are abroad and to get in touch with American embassies and consulates there and also to try to avoid large crowds,

We would urge patients to think twice and consider the risks and implications before going abroad for treatment.

With the new C&G format, by all accounts those games will be at weekends. So hopefully, we will have more access to our first-choice side which is something we haven't had this year. Guys won't be forced to use up as many holidays to play and that frees up other opportunities to go abroad and play.

Ultimately, a weaker dollar will spur policy shifts abroad that will be good for global growth. Ultimately, that will help earnings as well.

Shashi Tharoor

Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.'

Robert Reich

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

Theodore Schultz

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.

Laurie Colwin

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.

Emraan Hashmi

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

W. S. Gilbert

She has lived the most remarkable life, as the brilliant performer the world came to know when she was just a child, to the dedicated public servant who has served her country both at home and abroad for 30 years.

Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.

John le Carre

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

Samuel Bodman

Look, the Bush administration is not going to come up with a number. I can tell you what my view is, and I'd like to have another 10 percent of capacity today, ... But that could come either abroad or could come here, but I would like to have something that, in a better world, would relieve some of the pressure on these facilities.

Mike Young

Many investors in the United States will look abroad (next year) on concerns that their own market is overvalued, ... The general feeling is that they've done very well in the U.S., so their upside is more limited.

Many students say that cost is the major limiting factor to studying abroad. This sweepstakes is our way of promoting international education while making a student's dream of studying abroad come true.

John C. Calhoun

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.

Charles Bass

I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.

Bob Barr

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.

This study underscores the need to take swift, meaningful actions at home and abroad to address climate change.

Gwen Ifill

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

Paul Robeson

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

John Williams

We are looking at home and abroad for players, but that's not a name I've heard mentioned.

Wang Dan did not fulfill his sentence before leaving the country. If he wants to finish his medical parole abroad and apply to return to his country, China's legal departments will handle it in accordance with relevant regulations.

Otto Schily

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.

Cory Booker

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Heber J. Grant

I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

Edward Lazear

On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.