Top 1200 Far East Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

Truly sports is a great unifier as our athletes come from villages and cities, north to south, from east to west.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The impressions on the soul that comes from the Holy Ghost are far more significant than a vision. It is where the spirit speaks to spirit and the imprint upon the soul is far more difficult to erase.

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

All the other students were going to flash firms in London, but I'm a real homebody and was determined to stay in the North-East.

In the Middle East, I can't walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I'm totally fine going out.

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

Hillary Clinton is guilty, of all the things that Director [James] Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more. He stated many things, but it's far more and he knows that.

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists.

The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

I'm someone who believes that all political campaigns need to be grassroots-driven. Commercials can only get you so far. Mail can only get you far. You need to have people on the ground talking about you and why they care.

I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly.

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

My parents were an ordinary East End family and very supportive - they would have supported me no matter what I wanted to do.

When there is this dip in the jet stream that brings cold to the East, there's usually a countervailing loop that takes warm air into Alaska or the Arctic.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

And the pressure to clarify what exactly is happening to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East is certain to intensify in the New Year.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq, because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what sound I wanted to come with.