Quotes about Nation, page 10

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

Quote by Mick Jagger about nation

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

Quote by Mick Jagger about nation

I'm in an industry where people - it's not unusual for people to be gay or whatever.

Quote by Elton John about nation

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation

I miss the people, and I miss Sonny Crockett. He was fun to play.

Quote by Don Johnson about nation

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Quote by James Joyce about nation

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about nation

The intensity of the tantrum is directly proportional to the amount of people around to witness.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about nation

The more people looking at you driving on the driving range, the more slicing your driving will get.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about nation

The chances of a conductor asking a section to play a passage by themselves in the rehearsal, is directly proportional to the difficulty of the passage and how well the people can play it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about nation

Language is the book of nobility of a nation.

Quote by Vasile Alecsandri about nation

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way animals are treated.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about nation

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could, it is not an animate entity or agent, it is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine. a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own...

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation