506 Country Quotes & Sayings

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders. — Peter Jackson

This then will be the shape and the feel of the world: an abandoned shell, signs of old life, curious animals wandering in and out of ruins, the wilderness crowding in, overtaking all human structures and human things. — Ben H. Winters

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. — Vincent Van Gogh

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me ... — Emilie Autumn

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff. — Candy Crowley

My doom and my strength is to be solitary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. — Umberto Eco

Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses in prisons in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, sent prisoners secretly to other nations to be tortured, denied the applicability of the Geneva Convention restraints, and severely restricted time-honored civil liberties within our own country. Certain political leaders of other nations, who are inclined to perpetrate human rights abuses to quiet dissenting voices and were previously restrained by positive influence from Washington, now feel free to emulate or exceed the abuses approved by American leaders. — Jimmy Carter

A liar is always lavish of oaths. — Pierre Corneille

I'm never not nervous before going onstage. Like ... what if I fall on my face? — Grace Gummer

I've never been motivated by the award thing. There's a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I'm still working with that. I don't think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it. — Jeff Bridges

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

Doors of opportunity are always open around you - you just have to find them. — Debasish Mridha