East Quotes · Page 19

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Kailash Satyarthi

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

— Florence Nightingale

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.

— Mohammed Morsi

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

— Andre Vltchek

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical…

— Camille Paglia

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

— Massimiliano Gioni

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

— Carroll Shelby

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about…

— Dan Quayle

I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with…

— Gail Collins

The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn…

— Phyllis McGinley

The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see…

— Francois Hollande

We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle…

— Bobby Jindal

I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East…

— Robert Dessaix

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was…

— Flannery O'Connor

Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a…

— Lee Kuan Yew

There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going…

— Abdallah II

UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours…

— Lester Holt

If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought…

— Bill Burr

The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last…

— Tariq Ramadan

Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global…

— Thomas Friedman

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught…

— Mother Teresa

In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us]…

— Noam Chomsky

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle…

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Donnie Yen

The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.

— Katie Pavlich

“Here. After so long waiting. Her purple eyes. Torn cloak. Skin pale, sheer as ice. Exhausted. But unafraid.”

— Edith Pattou

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

— Dean Acheson

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody,…

— Richard Land

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories…

— Harpo Marx

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

— Rick Larsen

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

— Casey Affleck

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

— Pat Boone

“The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

— Kenny Marchant

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

— Adam Rapp

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan