Foreign Affairs Minister

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, affairs and/or minister:

    When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    Friendship is constant in all other things
    Save in the office and affairs of love.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    [T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, “We have heard several of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)