Small Countries Quotes - Page 2

• [Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Country, Religious, Principles

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, People, Half

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Country, Military, War

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

  Brooke Fraser

  Country, Song, Life Changing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Country, People, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Wife, Spy

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• Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

  Gideon Raff

  Country, Israel, Sophisticated

  "Loved Homeland? Wait until you see its inspiration, Hatufim" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2012.

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• Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

  Helen Clark

  Country, Position, Strongest

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• Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

  Allison Pearson

  Running, Country, Home

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• Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Riches, Granted

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• Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Country, Class, Would Be

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• New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

  Peter Jackson

  Country, Village, New Zealand

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• Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Country, Art, House

  "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.

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• A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

  Nadine Labaki

  Dream, Country, Impossible

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• The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Land, Two

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Country, Acting, Sound

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• We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.

  Tomislav Nikolic

  Country, Responsibility, Decision

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• I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Awards, America

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

  Jamie Bell

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Peace, Children

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• For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Country, Switzerland, Germany

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Country, Witty

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• Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

  Donald Tusk

  Country, Poland

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• If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

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• Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

  David Lange

  Country, Mass Destruction, Issues

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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