Top 1200 East And West Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the region.

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.

The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

The West's involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster from the start... and finally, with President Trump, America is in a position to bring it to an end.

My grandfather and his wife came to America at the end of the 19th century from Hungary. Everyone started out on the Lower East Side. They became embourgeoise and would move to the Upper West Side. Then, if they'd make money, they'd move to Park Avenue. Their kids would become artists and move down to the Lower East Side and the Village.

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.

I was in a situation where I was a West Coast artist signed to an East Coast label.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Truly sports is a great unifier as our athletes come from villages and cities, north to south, from east to west.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.