Top 1200 Far East Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

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

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

We are now seeing a movement that wishes to place race back at the forefront of our political thinking and, frighteningly, that viewpoint seems to be shared by those on the far left and the far right. We cannot remain cohesive as a nation if we are attacking each other on the basis.

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

I think Donald Trump believes in defeating ISIS, resolving issues in the Middle East.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

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

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

If you can't see very far aheadgo ahead as far as you can see.

I really missed the East Coast. I love living in Hawaii, but I miss the changing of seasons.

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.

Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. ... whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.

I want to see if I can play in the Big East, ACC, Pac-10, and pitch, too.

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

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

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

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

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism.

I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.

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

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time.

I always fancied myself an outdoorsman, even though I'm a Jewish guy from the East Coast.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

The Saudis helped the U.S. ensure that the Russians never got a meaningful foothold in the Middle East.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.