Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When they're shooting, when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they are chopping off the heads… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, America has spent as of four weeks ago $6 trillion. Think of it. And, by the way, the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The special relationship between the United States and Israel still stands. Our total committments to Israel's security and our hope for peace… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
![“If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for a freer society and where people are repressed by a small group of ayatollahs. I see Syria, where we can see a similar desire of the people to be free. These two countries fund…” quote by Donald Rumsfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/615/donald-rumsfeld-1507_afghanistan_if-i-look-at-the-really-important-questi_1108462.jpg)
![“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes…” quote by Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b6/stephen-kinzer-2514_ajax_the-world-has-paid-a-heavy-price-for-the_2256735.jpg)
![“[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. It was important to me and my work. And I just don't feel it in the same way any more. When it comes up and it's important to me, I'll do it, but…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba7/peter-van-agtmael-25908_bigs_the-middle-east-conflict-just-kind-of-ra_2760410.jpg)
