Continental Powers Quotes & Sayings

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus

From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish. — Linda Colley

So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind. — John Green

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? — Edith Sitwell

Deists, not religious authoritarians, codified the clear separation of church from state in addition to the division of powers within the state. Deists, not the Continental philosophers, established our democratic republic upon uniquely radical interpretations of constitutional and procedural stability, representation, accountability, and transparency. Deists, not autocrats, formed a more perfect Union that preserved equally for each individual the universal civil liberties inscribed in the Bill of Rights. It was Deists who stood up for Everyman by instituting true equality and freedom for all. — Beth Houston

Both nations have an idea of Manifest Destiny and a concept of the Monroe Doctrine in their ideological arsenal, and both are continental powers with political and cultural influence that extends far beyond their national borders. — Patrick Mendis

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. — John Mearsheimer

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run. — Bob Newhart

And if they couldn't bend their thinking around the world, they bent the world around their thinking. — Terry Pratchett

Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God. — Matt Chandler