Quotes with abroad

  • Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
  • As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bill McKibben A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Nancy Mitford Abroad is utterly bloody and foreigners are fiends.
    The persuit of love (1945)
    Nancy Mitford
    British writer (1904 - 1973)
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Henry Wotton An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Alex Cox And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Harold Macmillan At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Dorothy Thompson Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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  • William Blake Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alexander Pope Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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