#countries

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#controlling #countries #developed #developed countries #economies

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#co-operation #community #conception #countries #exchange

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#countries #dependent #energy #foreign #foreign countries

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#arab countries #back #be real #countries #gets

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#efforts #ended #europe #few #including

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#everybody #exception #first #first of all #going

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#behind #blame #cause #countries #development

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. ↗

— Roman Payne

#cities-and-countries #city #enmity #glory #love

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bad #cities #cities-and-countries #city #good