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  • "Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. -- George Eliot
  • Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro. -- James Howell
  • Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way. -- Paul Fussell
  • The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there? -- Rose Macaulay
  • When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in. -- Karl Pilkington
  • Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons--new and uncertain nations--new pressures of population and deprivation. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible. -- Ajay Devgan
  • Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says. -- Karl Pilkington
  • Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us. -- Christopher Bond
  • A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. -- John Quincy Adams
  • We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. -- Ronald Reagan
  • When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. -- Deng Xiaoping
  • It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
  • Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
  • Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means. -- Alan Greenspan
  • My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad. -- Bob Hawke
  • That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get. -- Harbhajan Singh
  • Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. -- John James Audubon
  • I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland. -- Michael D. Higgins
  • America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. -- Bill Shuster
  • We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? -- Thomas Pogge
  • But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. -- Sigmar Gabriel
  • The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger. -- Michelle Obama
  • Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. -- Saint Augustine
  • I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire. -- Gene Pitney
  • A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. -- Confucius
  • At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich. -- Vladimir Putin
  • My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. -- Mark Strong
  • Foul whisperings are abroad -- William Shakespeare
  • Foul whisp'rings are abroad. -- William Shakespeare
  • There's villainous news abroad. -- William Shakespeare
  • Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • The great white cold walks abroad! -- Richard Hovey
  • A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. -- Horace
  • Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad. -- Ron Paul
  • The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless. -- Michelle Obama
  • I support any Muslims, whether here or abroad. -- Osama bin Laden
  • Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! -- Marcus Garvey
  • On wings of wind came flying all abroad. -- Alexander Pope
  • A saint abroad, and a devil at home. -- John Bunyan
  • America needs to be secure at home and abroad. -- Rick Larsen
  • The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap. -- Charles Sumner
  • Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things. -- George Alec Effinger
  • We are getting more and more imports from abroad. -- George W. Bush
  • Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. -- Samuel Butler
  • Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. -- Jared Diamond
  • Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. -- Noam Chomsky
  • My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. -- Bill Forsyth
  • Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad. -- Bashar al-Assad
  • In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. -- Horace
  • Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. -- Robert Burns
  • We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense. -- Ron Paul
  • A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad. -- Asif Kapadia
  • The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • For a batsman, scoring runs abroad is always a challenge. -- Suresh Raina
  • Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad. -- George Herbert
  • I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more. -- Robin Gibb
  • America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home. -- Mark Twain
  • Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. -- Silvio Berlusconi
  • There are many Israelis who live abroad and love the country. -- Beny Steinmetz
  • Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth. -- Saint Augustine
  • Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. -- Washington Allston
  • Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries. -- Henry Wotton
  • How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. -- William Shakespeare
  • We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad. -- Sam Brownback
  • Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. -- Lech Walesa
  • Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial. -- Claudia Schiffer
  • We need to help companies find profit opportunities abroad, not photo opportunities. -- Rajiv Shah
  • Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. -- Richard Steele
  • The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals. -- Zach Braff
  • I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad. -- will.i.am
  • It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine. -- Darryl Pinckney
  • Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad. -- John Yoo
  • Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction. -- Adrienne Rich
  • An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. -- Henry Wotton
  • Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them. -- Moliere
  • The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. -- Robert Morley
  • Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. -- Arthur Erickson
  • A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. -- Aeschylus
  • The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. -- Edward Bond
  • The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere! -- Charles Spurgeon
  • A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. -- Confucius
  • As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home. -- Tom Gjelten
  • Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing. -- Euripides
  • It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad. -- Homer
  • On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad. -- Laurence Sterne
  • And I roseIn rainy autumnAnd walked abroad in a shower of all my days... -- Dylan Thomas
  • I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad. -- Martin Parr
  • My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize. -- Queen Mary
  • My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize. -- Queen Mary
  • Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad. -- Jacob M. Appel
  • I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. -- Ella Maillart
  • It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security. -- Dinsha Patel
  • What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. -- Alain de Botton
  • A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels. -- Emily Dickinson
  • I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad. -- Sonia Gandhi
  • EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter. -- Evan Osnos
  • Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad? -- Sinclair Lewis
  • I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned. -- Quentin Crisp
  • One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad. -- Rose Macaulay
  • I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned -- Quentin Crisp
  • I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much. -- Geraldine Chaplin
  • It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home. -- Ambeth R. Ocampo
  • I think Donald Trump knows the kind of leadership that Americans need at home and abroad. -- Mike Pence
  • Makeup can give you the confidence to...change your job, move abroad, get a pay raise. -- Charlotte Tilbury
  • Brands are the rock stars of commerce, and create many fans, both at home and abroad. -- Simon Anholt
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