This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.
– James Reston
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- Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. – Sonia Sotomayor
- In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell
- Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. – Henry James
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G.K. Chesterton
- We need to have a purpose in this life. I’m pleading with you, I’m begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing. – James McGreevey
- Conform and be dull. – J. Frank Doble
- “Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.” – Nancy Springer
- Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. – Michel Eyquem
- If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. – Steve Stockman