Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There's an inter-dimensional vortex that opens… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian… — Michelle Rempel Copy Share Image
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background. — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they… — Nirmalya Kumar Copy Share Image
Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western,… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image