East Quotes · Page 79

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind…

— Tony Judt

The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West…

— James Redfield

Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating…

— Ali Shariati

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

— Elliott Abrams

Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on…

— Richard Engel

In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do…

— Chuck Klosterman

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All…

— Jairam Ramesh

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

— Charlotte Curtis

This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our…

— Barack Obama

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film…

— Lawrence Jordan

I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level…

— Andy Kennedy

We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not…

— Vladimir Putin

God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to…

— Desmond Tutu

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

— Bill Kurtis

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies…

— Edward Gibbon

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West,…

— Douglas Malloch

I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart…

— Chris Matthews

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their…

— James Buchan

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

I was against it [war in Middle East]. And I was against it very early. And we shouldn't have been in there.…

— Donald Trump

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content…

— Robert Hughes

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

— Harpo Marx