Country Quotes - Page 39

• Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

  Vinton Cerf

  Math, Space, Use

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• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Important, Needs

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• But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Tears, Woe

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.123

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• One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Said, Curse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiring, Numbers, Empowering

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.96, Tara Publishing

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• There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

  Moshe Katsav

  Rights, Iran, Community

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• All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

  Margaret Chan

  Pneumonia, Pandemics, Fierce

  "WHO increases swine flu alert". www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2009.

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• A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

  Walter Lippmann

  Depressing, Mean, Law

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Stress, Struggle, Mean

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Years, Seven Months

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• This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

  George Strait

  Thank You, Careers, Want

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• The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Privilege, University

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Odds, America

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• These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, America, People

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Mistake

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

  Ari Shapiro

  Monday, Heart, Joining In

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• Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Embarrassing

  "Harvey Weinstein Says on CNN 'Obama's Not Embarrassing; the Country Is Embarrassing'". "The Piers Morgan Live Show", www.newsbusters.org. November 19, 2013.

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• How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

  Che Guevara

  Sweat, Suffering, Raw Materials

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.341, Ocean Press

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• This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

  Fidel Castro

  Spiritual, Heaven, Dictator

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Deterioration, Use, Patterns

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• Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

  B. F. Skinner

  Age, Enjoy, Prepared

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• READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reading, Sphinx, Stories

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Party, People, Causes

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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Blessed, Animal, Heritage

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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