Country Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The greatest honour in a reactionary country is to be a progressive man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on the ballot. — Venita Ellick

The destiny of every country is in the hands of the people who know God. — Sunday Adelaja

We are doing a disservice to our country when we keep on pushing the messages of miracles, signs and wonders. — Sunday Adelaja

A poor nation is full of suffering.
A decadent nation is full of sin.
A learned nation is full of scholars.
A righteous nation is full of saints. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science. — Virchand Gandhi

Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love is a country, with closed borders and a language no foreigner can speak. The only people who can understand its customs, traditions, and history are its citizens. A relationship doesn't have to make sense to all people. It only has to make sense to two people. — Jillian Keenan

I have never felt so alive - so free - so proud. I love my country. I love my America. — Debasish Mridha

Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.'

"Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?"

"Sun readers don't care *who* runs the country - as long as she's got big tits. — Antony Jay

The strength of a country derives from the educational levels of the individuals in that nation. — Debasish Mridha

Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds. — Alex Haditaghi

Not everyone is violent in a violence infected country or society. In those countries and societies many parents unknowingly teach their children hatred and violence. — Debasish Mridha

Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country. — Sunday Adelaja

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision. — Debasish Mridha

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is democracy? If it is the rule of the majority, ignoring the rest, then it is not good, it is very bad! But if it is the rule of the whole citizens, caring the wills of both the majority and the rest, then it is good, then it is real democracy! And the purpose of every real democracy is to be a modern country, to be a modern structure! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world. — Debasish Mridha

I was really into communal living and we were all /
such free spirits, crossing the country we were /
nomads and artists and no one ever stopped / to think about how the one working class housemate / was whoring to support a gang of upper middle class / deadheads with trust fund safety nets and connecticut / childhoods, everyone was too busy processing their isms / to deal with non-issues like class ... and it's just so cool / how none of them have hang-ups about / sex work they're all real / open-minded real / revolutionary you know / the legal definition of pimp is / one who lives off the earnings of / a prostitute, one or five or / eight and i'd love to stay and / eat some of the stir fry i've been cooking / for y'all but i've got to go fuck / this guy so we can all get stoned and / go for smoothies tomorrow, save me / some rice, ok? — Michelle Tea

To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don't study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition. — Debasish Mridha

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

Deceptions and lies reign in a country where focus is on messages of miracles and wonders — Sunday Adelaja

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun and a knife! A man needs no courage at all to stand behind these things that make him feel invincible and bigger than he ever will be! I don't say that no one should fight! Because battles must be fought, and wars will always be won! But let those who fight, fight with bare hands! The measure of true strength! With his hands and feet and nothing but! The country with truly strong men is able to have soldiers that need not a knife, that need no guns! And if you can soar even higher than that; fight with your pens! Let us all write! And see the substance of the man through his philosophies and through his beliefs! And let one philosophy outdo another! Let one belief outlast another! And let this be how we determine the outcome of a war! — C. JoyBell C.

I find feminism in smiles of a country girl not in Woolf's artworks. — Ali Rezavand Zayeri

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice. — Jodi Picoult

Where you are not respected inhabit not that country,
You can not earn, have friends and get knowledge truly.
[8] 1.8 Chanakya — Munindra Misra

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective? — Jay Woodman

There wasn't a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying our
country? — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves. — Debasish Mridha

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated. — Debasish Mridha

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The religious right is one of the most politically militant voting blocs in the country and the agenda is clear (a gun in every uterus). Time we stopped subsidizing the anti-abortion movement in the form of tax-exemptions. — Quentin R. Bufogle

Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My country right or wrong is like saying my mother drunk or sober. G.K.Chesterton This is one of my favorite quotes and would bring about world peace if more knew and lived it. — Wayne Costigan

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return. — Henry Johnson Jr

Never build your country, until you build and grow your people — Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration — Sunday Adelaja

Lives Matter" - Those that serve our country matter. Lets be part of the solution to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community. Change the Atmosphere, Change the Outcome! — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I drank the dregs of the wine to what remained of my health.
I gave the last of my fervor for what remained of my hope.
I cannot say for sure that this country is cursed,
Honey flows with the milk, and the milk might curdle.
Eli7 — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

It doesn't matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences. — Sunday Adelaja

Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country. — Laurie Nadel

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called. — Shawna Yang Ryan

Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God. — Sunday Adelaja

And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near. — Courtney Giardina

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days ... — Kellie Elmore

The road, they said, was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural law, and its one characteristic was freedom. — Charles Frazier

Just think about this: haven't we been going just to and fro? The whole world rather. Years back, it was good to take vitamin supplements and today they are considered hampering body's natural immune. Sometime back, people were desperate to land up in high paying jobs, today there is a big entrepreneurship fad. Back in years, it was a pride to be settled in the city, now people are giving up all responsibilities to settle at a peaceful country side.
What are we all really doing? We are moving from pillar to post, forward and backward on theories. We are all as confused as the next person. And unfortunately, we are all going to leave this world with barely being able to decipher much. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God. — David Platt

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe. — Septima Poinsette Clark

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there are so many kinds of pills and medicines used. We even have those in India now. These things show that not only in America but in all the countries of the world we have to recourse to artificial means for necessary nutrients because people are not aware of right rules of diet. It is better to follow the right rules of diet in the beginning in order to avoid any kind of artificial medicines later on. — Virchand Gandhi

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I saw myself as reviving a certain mode of life, a mode that had been almost lost: the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history. In Renaissance times they had called it sprezzatura. The idea was to do whatever one did with grace, to imbue one's every action with beauty, while at the same time making it look quite effortless. Thus, if one were to work at, say, law, one should raise it to the level of an art; if one were to laze, then one must laze beautifully. This, they said, was the true meaning of being an aristocrat. — Paul Murray

And should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her ... — Kellie Elmore

They only want to be there while you're on top, and when you haven't gotten a gig in a while and you don't know how you're going to pay your rent at the end of the month and the glamor they thought they signed up for is gone, they're walking out the door, leaving you to pick up the pieces. — Courtney Giardina

A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Lord pls give me quality problems like where to bank my Billions!which country to go shopping,should I buy a Bugatti or Ferrari?problem like where do I park my Jet Eleda masun!!!Oya turnup — Kazeem Akintilo

The rise of one civilization is the weakening of another.
The fall of one civilization is the strengthening of another. — Matshona Dhliwayo

An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual.
This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I'm right there with our founding fathers. I'm a patriot and a Christian, and I'm moving forth with what they started. But now it's gotten to where I'm some kind of nut or Bible beater.
I say, so be it. I'll still go across the country spreading God's Word, like I've done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. It's what makes me happy, happy, happy. — Phil Robertson

Liberia got Petroleum (Oil): The problem of development lies in good leadership and great communication. Some of our leaders want to turn the country's oil company into the Gaddafi regime of Libya that they could rule Liberia and their sons and grand kids can also rule as well. It's a form of oppression. The Liberian people want a leader, not an oppressor or an installed puppet. Someone who will put the country and its peoples' interest first. Not a corrupt politician who's out to rip the country apart, in the name of enriching their families. — Henry Johnson Jr

Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no future for a nation without God.
There is no hope for a ruler without understanding.
The is no joy for a people without guidance.
The is no prosperity for country without wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Compassionate Intelligence is when love guides reason to the definite realization of our holographic and supportive universe. It's the origin of this loving wisdom which characterized all of the great masters. These Masters learned to live in the world like visiting foreign diplomats, since they acknowledged that their heart always dwell in their country of origin, the Kingdom of God. — Ivan Figueroa-Otero

When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse. — Sunday Adelaja

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family. — Virchand Gandhi

We got up at 6am to go to school for a few years and we found it so challenging. Some people in our country have woken up at 6am every single morning for decades now so that this nation can wake up and see great mornings. I salute all those wonderful super humans who are inspiring a better tomorrow. Thank you, Teachers! — Sharad Vivek Sagar

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes being a MOM is like a good
ol' country song! You lose your sleep, you lose your hair, you lose your patience, you lose your energy, you lose your memory AND you lose your SANITY! But you DO IT all for LOVE! — Tanya Masse

You got warlords still running free, but yet you want a stable Liberia. You got puppets as leaders still signing off Liberia's resources to foreigners, but yet you want a developed Liberia. They are threat to a progressive Liberia. — Henry Johnson Jr

He was my age and in my imagination he was a fireman, not the kind that actually fights fires but the kind who travels the country shirtless posing for calendars. — Marika Christian

She quotes three current studies into the subject of self-esteem, all of which reach this conclusion and she states that 'people with high self-esteem pose a greater threat to those around them than people with low self-esteem and feeling bad about yourself is not the source of our country's biggest, most expensive social problems.'1 — Timothy J. Keller

It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

Everything I didn't know I was looking for ... it's there whenever I'm with you. I don't know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don't want anything other than what's right here, right now. — Courtney Giardina

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed. — Rachel Hauck

World opinion, though sharply divided on nuclear tests and the risk of atmospheric pollution, could congratulate itself on being united in its opposition to cannibalism. No country in the world was prepared to support the custom of eating the dead, though the right of governments to kill people, individually or by hundreds of thousands, was not questioned for a moment. — Leonard Wibberley

Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country. — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Perhaps in the stillness of a summer night they will feel compelled to walk barefoot down a moonlit country
road and search for the magic that connects all beings in the Circle of Life. — Autumn Morning Star

A country which is governed by the religious rules cannot be called as a country, but just a big open prison! Where freedom of expression doesn't exist, where freedom is just a dream, over there nothing exists, nothing but the utter ugliness of a fascist oppression! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nations are built overtime.
Nations are destroyed overnight. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he'd picked wild flowers like he used to when we'd visit cousins in the country. — Megan Shepherd

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. — Karl Lagerfeld

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority. — Sunday Adelaja

We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss. — Anne Fortier

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. — Rabindranath Tagore

Christians are the hope of any country — Sunday Adelaja

Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value. — Debasish Mridha

Autumn in the country advances in a predictable path, taking its place among the unyielding rhythms of the passing seasons. It follows the summer harvest, ushering in cooler nights, and shorter days, enveloping all of Lanark County in a spectacular riot of colour. Brilliant hues of yellow, orange and red exclaim, in no uncertain terms, that these are the trees where maple syrup legends are born. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

The wiser a king is,
the greater his nation will become.
The more enlightened a nation is,
the more esteemed it is. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is very good, Wisehammer, it's very well written, but it's too-too-political. It will be considered provocative."
"You don't want me to say it."
"Not tonight. We have many people against us."
"I could tone it down. I could omit 'We left our country for our country's good.'"
"That's the best line. — Timberlake Wertenbaker

Making wine and drinking wine is not new to African Americans and others in the Diaspora. South Africa has a three-century history in growing, harvesting and distilling grapes as wine. The entire continent of Africa has a history in wine-making. In this country, slaves cultivated the vineyards owned by Thomas Jefferson and other vintners. — Andre Hueston Mack