Top 784 Eastern Quotes & Sayings

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

I will tell , though, that Donald Trump got 70 percent in eastern Kentucky and I don't think it had anything to do with the Russian. He got 70 percent because in eastern Kentucky we didn't like what President [Barack] Obama or Hillary Clinton wanted to do to our coal jobs. It didn't have anything to do with the Russians.

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco or Shanghai travels instantly, thanks to modern means of communication, to all Eastern peoples and fills them with enthusiasm and faith. This phenomenon is, of course, unprecedented in the history of man.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

If there's somewhere that in no way resembles Eastern Europe, it's Australia.

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

I think Middle Eastern hair is very resilient.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Therefore, Eastern mystics must have been talking about quantum theory all along.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

Prior to being a Canadian, I'm also Middle Eastern.

Putin saw the Ukrainian revolution as a challenge to him personally, and I think that's why he, in fact, over-reacted. I think his occupation of Crimea and then annexation for him was actually a mistake from Russia's point of view. And then his invasion of Eastern Ukraine was also a mistake. He imagined that he would invade Eastern Ukraine and then eventually split the country in half, and he discovered that in fact, Russian-speaking Ukrainians are not Russians, and they didn't support him.

Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.

When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.

I have very strong belief in bringing Western and Eastern medicine together. It doesn't have to be polarized.

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

I think it's time that we had a dad of Middle Eastern descent on TV. The time is ripe for the Middle Eastern 'Cosby Show.' Or, as I like to call it, 'The Mazby Show.'

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

I eat tall, chinny, Eastern European heavyweights for breakfast.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

'Eastern Promises' is great.

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.