Top 1200 East Asia Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

Our acquisition strategy is very clear: 3x3. Three continents - Asia, Africa and South America, and in three categories where we have strong positions - personal wash, household care and hair care.

The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

According to geologists, about 100 million years from now, Asia and the Americas will smash together to form one giant supercontinent. The good news: Maybe all those jobs that went over there will finally come back.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

I do a lot of solo work in Europe and the Far East, and my main passion is traveling.

Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

'The Sopranos' was a very East Coast show; 'Heroes' is more organically global.

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.

Money has an important role the older you become. To get this chance at nearly 31, to go from the Greek league to a big team in Asia and earn well, it feels very nice. The money will be security for me and my family.

I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

People like me who are here in flyover country, we're tired of East Coast moderates.

In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

Our group has been in Asia since 1981 in mining, oil and gas. Now we want to mine not silver and gold, but great stories and people, and change the world of cinema, and we want to do that by walking in the footsteps of Wu Tianming.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.

The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.