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  • English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

    Mean   Gentleman   Asking  
    Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks
  • In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.

    History   Leader   Way  
    Eugene Davidson (1997). “The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism”, p.365, University of Missouri Press
  • Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore as entitled to sell the country's natural resources and to borrow money in its people's name. These privileges conferred by foreigners keep autocrats in power despite the fact that they were not elected and do not rule in the interest of the population.

    Country   Names   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

    Eye   Effort   Enemy  
    Taylor Branch (2007). “Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • Only a Europe that is conscious of its own values can be both an economically strong and a morally and intellectually respected partner, and thereby extend its hospitality to others. It's a cultural disgrace that we are forced to identify no-go areas for foreigners.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I'll always be a foreigner.

  • Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

  • Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

  • The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

  • For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

    Travel   Littles   Niche  
    "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.
  • Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!

    Mother   Hate   Animal  
  • When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

    Saws   Firsts   Building  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster”, p.134, Open Road Media
  • As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

  • And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

    "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.
  • Being a foreigner is not a disease.

    Alden Nowlan (1968). “Miracle at Indian River: stories”, Toronto, Clarke
  • Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

    "Border Invasion Abroad, Border Betrayal at Home" by Ilana Mercer, www.wnd.com. January 16, 2004.
  • I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1458, Delphi Classics
  • A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

    Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.280, Walter de Gruyter
  • There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

    Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.52, Pan Macmillan
  • We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.

  • Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

    Travel   Owing   Littles  
  • There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
  • A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

    Country   War   Fighting  
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1960). “PLAYS”
  • If a country is an attractive place for foreigners to invest their funds, then that country will have a relatively high exchange rate. If it's an unattractive place, it will have a relatively low exchange rate. Those are the fundamentals that determine the exchange rate in a floating exchange rate system.

  • We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

    "The English and the Normans". Book by Hugh Thomas, p. 56, 2003.
  • I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

    Memories   Writing   Past  
  • People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

    Boys   People   Want  
    Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.133, Macmillan
  • ...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH.

    Lying   Ideas   Hello  
    Meg Cabot (2009). “Every Boy's Got One”, p.23, Zondervan
  • Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.

    Devil   Adults   Three  
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