Top 1200 East Asia Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

It's true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

I've always been a huge supporter of the only democracy in the Middle East.

I'm from East Palo Alto, California. I grew up with zero dollars.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

I grew up with comics. Whether it be from the East or the West, I devoured them.

Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia.

You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.

Nowadays, however strong an economy is, not all roads will lead only there. There will be other links between countries in Asia, with America, with Europe, and China will fit into this global network.

China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!

I have friends who ended up playing professionally in the Middle East and Europe.

I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Every few months, I find myself in Europe or the Middle East.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

The East is tougher than a lot of people give us credit for.

We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia. The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

When I was visiting the U.K. as a teenager in 2006, I got lost in an East London market.

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.

If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.