Small Countries Quotes:

I never thought I'd be in a family that has more people than a small country.

- Scott Disick

topic: Country, People, Small Countries

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

- David Hockney

topic: Country, Britain, Small Countries

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Country, Men, Hands, Duress, Zeitgeist

The small countries of the world are as important as the big nations.

- Narendra Modi

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

topic: Country, Countries Of The World, Important, Small Countries

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Wisdom, Country, Teacher, Senators, Dakota

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: Country, Doubt, Able, Small Countries, Super Power

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

- Louis Farrakhan

topic: Country, Struggle, Leader, Small Countries

I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.

- Vera Farmiga

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Barbie, Noses, Small Countries

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

- Hassanal Bolkiah

topic: Country, People, Quality, Small Countries, Hinges

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

topic: Country, Europe, Three, Small Countries

A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

- Laozi

topic: Country, Yield, People, Small Countries

It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

- Claudio Reyna

topic: Country, Team, Unique, Small Countries

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Country, Israel, Years, Small Countries

If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

- Laozi

topic: Country, Yield, Taoism, Small Countries

You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

- David Edelstein

topic: Country, Reading, Mean, Dystopian, Small Countries

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

- Mencius

topic: Country, Strong, Weak, Small Countries

If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Country, Important, Neglected, Small Countries

Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous.

- Frank Pearce

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Running, Country, Games, Small Countries

A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.

- Bidzina Ivanishvili

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Country, Levels, Littles, Small Countries

I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already managed to remain at the helm for 18 years. I still want to achieve a great many things for my country. Experience is not a disadvantage here, especially as the head of government of a small country in a European setting that has become more difficult.

- Jean-Claude Juncker

source: "The Demons Haven't Been Banished". Spiegel Online Interview, www.spiegel.de. March 11, 2013.

topic: Country, Government, Years, Small Countries

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

- Iveta Radicova

topic: Country, Needs, Moments, Small Countries

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.

- Ari Marcopoulos

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Country, People, Perspective, Small Countries

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

- Baz Luhrmann

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Country, Australia, Hip Hop, Small Countries

Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Country, Optimistic, Unique, Small Countries, Unique Nature

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

- Madeleine Albright

source: Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

topic: Country, Agreement, Holocaust, Small Countries, Balkans

Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.

- Samuel P. Huntington

source: Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

topic: Country, Military, Israel, Small Countries

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.savetibet.org

topic: Country, Religious, Principles, Small Countries, Religious Traditions

Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.russianembassy.org

topic: Country, People, Half, Small Countries, Lithuania

The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.

- Lupe Fiasco

source: "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

topic: Country, Military, War, Military Budget, Small Countries

Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

- Brooke Fraser

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Country, Song, Life Changing, Small Countries, New Zealand

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Country, Wife, Spy, Small Countries

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

- Gideon Raff

source: "Loved Homeland? Wait until you see its inspiration, Hatufim" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2012.

topic: Country, Israel, Sophisticated, Small Countries

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

- Helen Clark

topic: Country, Position, Strongest, Small Countries

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

- Allison Pearson

topic: Running, Country, Home, Small Countries, Spare Time

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Country, Riches, Granted, Kosovo, Small Countries

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

topic: Country, Class, Would Be, Small Countries, Rwanda

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

- Peter Jackson

topic: Country, Village, Small Countries

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

- Stellan Skarsgard

source: "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.

topic: Country, Art, House, Small Countries

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

- Nadine Labaki

topic: Country, Dream, Impossible, Small Countries

Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.

- Amos Oz

source: Source: logger.believermag.com

topic: Country, Simple, Men, Israeli, Small Countries

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

- Bill Skarsgard

topic: Country, Acting, Just Being, Small Countries

We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.

- Tomislav Nikolic

topic: Country, Responsibility, Decision, Political Leaders, Small Countries

I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

topic: Country, Awards, America, Small Countries

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

- Jamie Bell

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Small Countries

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

- Oscar Arias

topic: Country, Peace, Children, Costa Rica, International Peace Day

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

topic: Country, Switzerland, Germany, Small Countries

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Country, Witty, Small Countries, Funny Cross Country Running

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

- Donald Tusk

topic: Country, Poland, Small Countries

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Country, Thinking, Iraq, Small Countries

Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

- David Lange

source: David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

topic: Country, Issues, One Day, Small Countries