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“Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.”

Has Beens Government Running Law Nations Leader Customs Afghanistan Countryside Provinces Kabul Central Government

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.”

Kind Two Rooms Acting Careers Seasons Tiny Landscape Village Exploring Countryside Pubs

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.”

Birth Countryside Birth And Death

Author:Jessica Raine

“For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.”

Simple Poor Cities Mystery Century Pope Quarrels Fringe Emperor Living On Countryside Illustration Outcast Wondrous Excluded Humiliated Parables Leper Leprosy

Book:Name of the Rose

Source: Name of the Rose

“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.”

“I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.”

Grew Grew Up Horse Obsessed Wildlife Countryside

Author:Bella Freud

“I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.”

“The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.”

Men World Use Eye Fields Delight Golden Serving Butterfly Countryside

Author:John Ray

“It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.”

People Way Humans War Hard Character Stories Difficult Emotional Gains Weight Camps Vehicle Far Away Frustrated Reporters Refugee Frustrating Covering Countryside Refugee Camps

Author:Rick Rowley

“Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.”

Country Dog Battle Aspect Garden Horse Rose Bounds British Myth Lovely Britain Courtesy Civility Countryside Aspects Of Life Rose Garden Britons Battle Of Britain

Author:R. W. Apple

“When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.”

Thinking Knows Running Countryside

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?”

Ifs Writing Wells Doe Memories Style Figures Movement Masters Paint Visuals Faculty Originality Gestures Countryside

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.”

“Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings.”

Made Two States Hands Wanted Views Powerful Enemy Teaching Land Decades Chinese Puppets Countryside Dukes

Author:Confucius

“I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.”

Ifs Kind Character School Form Strong Attitude Locals Tendencies Attachment Very Strong Countryside My Attitude

Author:Ibn Warraq

“It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.”

Way Born Interesting Theory 1960s Countryside Cottages

Author:Richard Rogers

“Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.”

People Way Walks Path Again And Again Countryside

Author:Lu Xun

“May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.”

May Lost Fame Rivers Let Me Environmental Streams Valleys Countryside Woodland Gliding

Author:Virgil

“But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.”

People Political Groups Economic Streets Wall News Code Throat Good News Countryside Exclusion Zips

Author:Jim Hightower

“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.”

Important Character Novel Crime Emotional Circumstances Offers Aspect Tradition Function Atmosphere Personal Life Detectives Countryside Tapestry Tapestry Of Life English Countryside

Author:Elizabeth George

“Hope is like a path in the countryside.”

Path Countryside

Author:Lu Xun

“In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.”

Thinking Years Past House Given Dark Elements Six Scripts Over The Past Countryside Retrospect Haunted Houses

Author:Gillian Anderson

“Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.”

Way Feels Made Numbers Optimistic Headings Countryside Hillbilly

Author:Jenny Holzer

“Two things revolutionised life: Moving to the countryside, and falling in love”

Moving Fall Falling In Love Countryside

Author:Nick Love

“Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!”

Purpose Walks Particular Walking Horse Sunset Countryside

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.”

Cities Cherish Countryside Living In The City

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.”

People Wells Today Earth Quiet Ancient Favourite Countryside Peace And Quiet

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”

People Way Believe Feelings I Believe Nations Cities Environment Share Land Everyday Caring Landscape Tragic Highways Housing Countryside Malls Parking Parking Lot Mega

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.”

Kind Stranger Lawyer Countryside Johannesburg

Author:Nelson Mandela

“What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.”

Time Hours Loses Desert Neglect Melancholy Shade Countryside Eyelids Inaccessible Negligence

Book:The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)

Source: The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)

“I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.”

Thinking Looks Beautiful House Rooms Areas Window Decided Glasses Studios Paris Sunshine Old Man Countryside Basements Dining Parlor Dining Rooms Idyllic Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Feist

“Well, my boyfriend's from California so it's kind of a bit of California countryside but closer to home. It just takes a couple of hours to get there. I don't know, it's just very laid back, nobody knows who we are really. We've just got our friends there who are kind of outside Erasure and everything. It's just very nice”

Knows Wells Kind Home Bits Hours Nice Couple California Who We Are Very Nice Nobody Knows Countryside My Boyfriend Laid Back

Author:Andy Bell

“It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.”

People Persons Water Cities Tree Countryside

Author:Grace Paley

“People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.”

People Knows Country Beautiful Missing Havens Train Airplane Traffic Passengers Countryside Railroads Missing It Beautiful Country

Author:Ken Kelly

“I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.”

Way Wells Littles Long Cities Dna Long Way Civilisation Countryside

Author:Jonathan Meades

“It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended up working in New York City, which is definitely the archetypal city.”

Feelings Home Wanted Cities New York Painting Paint New York City Ironic Countryside

Author:Brian Froud

“I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Fine Sitting Albums If I Could Suicidal Countryside

Author:Lykke Li

“I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.”

People Littles Whole Stories Walks Magic Wall Projects Mirrors Covered Cabinets Countryside Lanterns Peepholes

Author:Danielle Dutton

“The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more.”

People Years Kind Moments Light Like You Creating Years Ago Traffic Countryside Vortex Truly Happy Wanting More Traffic Light Bhutan Shangri

Author:Karan Bajaj

“The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.”

Knows Has Beens Country Government Wanted Months My Family Revolutionary Generous Santa Countryside Cuban Considerate Clara

Author:Huey Newton

“I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.”

Government Wanted Literature Teacher University Factories Truck Countryside Cuban Cement Repairing

Author:Huey Newton

“Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.”

People Ifs Long Bigs Party Cities Streets Conversation Fairs Countryside Detest Big Cities Long Conversations

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.”

Made Country Beautiful Courses Tree Forests Made It Artificial Countryside Beautiful Country English Countryside

Author:Freeman Dyson

“In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.”

People Ifs World Looks Used Girl Sex Behinds Taught Neighbor Pregnant Curtains Countryside Sneak

Author:Elton John

“I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.”

Graves Countryside English Countryside

Author:Bill Burr

“I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!”

Kids Games Parent Danger Television Grew Computer Grew Up Countryside Computer Games

Author:Charlie Brooker

“I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.”

People Sides Appreciate Bottom British Pity Covered Countryside Doorstep

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.”

People Thinking Way Made Ideas Young Views Party Students Grew Mets Grew Up Wings University Conservative Extremes Way Of Thinking Right Wing Countryside Budapest

Author:Csanad Szegedi

“I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.”

Ifs Needs Able Girl Bits Dog Wind Walking Embrace Boots Wet Countryside Wet Dogs

Author:Jay Kay

“I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.”

Thinking Turns Damage Gas Incentives Countryside Fracking

Author:Bill McKibben

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