Top 1200 East Asia Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.

We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

Bajrang Bali worked to connect all Indian communities together, from north to south and east to west.

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

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.

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.

Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.

Tweeting first and asking questions later is not a good way to make policy - especially in the Middle East.

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

I think we are paying a lot of attention to China one way or the other. They are a big factor in the world. They are successful; they are growing. They want to grow their influence, and all the countries in Asia want to be their friend and want to benefit from China's development and success.

There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

China is our largest trading partner in Asia. The normalization of our relations will create major opportunities for Norwegian businesses and for job creation. We also hope to resume negotiations on a free trade agreement with China.

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness of soul. You want the region to prosper; you want countries to do well, and you are prepared to help them.

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

We must move aggressively in Asia-Pacific because our competitors like China are moving very swiftly to tie down a regional trade agreement that leaves... our farmers and our workers and our businesses out.