Quotes about count
country kings war
We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship. Don Drysdale
country america done
America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else. Don King
country hate america
Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.
country house prophet
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. Dylan Thomas
country responsibility men
Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society. Dwight D. Eisenhower
country determination war
The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.
country military men
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country
country essence coercion
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
country voice chinese
In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a �10 trillion E.U., not a �1.5 trillion Britain. Douglas Alexander
country speak-english firsts
You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do. Doug Stanhope
country hate thinking
I wish the 50 states would break up. Lose the centralised government. More choice. How do you want to live, there's 50 different ways! You hate black people? We've a state for that. You wanna have an abortion? Here's a state. I think we should just keep breaking up countries now so they become just individuals.
country boys intelligent
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. Douglas Adams
country people looks
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves. Dorothea Lange
country
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
country strong powerful
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748) Doris Kearns Goodwin
country mean ideas
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.' Doris Lessing
country people unions
Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.
country mean knowing
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.
country borders easy
... it is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it ...
country facts events
At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
country children reality
We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children who are malnourished in our country. Donna Mills
country growing-up school
We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work. Donna Shalala
country countries-of-the-world perfect
For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world. Donnie Wahlberg
country agreement yes-i-can
You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with. Donald Evans
country technology california
It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things. Don Williams
country song ocean
You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend
country glasses government
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. Don Tapscott
country hands government
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. Don Young
country judging people
You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots. Donal Logue
country zest should-have
Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country. Dale Carnegie
country government media
The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity. Craig Newmark
country artist
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them. Conway Twitty
country song people
Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.