Eastern Quotes · Page 3

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

— Naguib Mahfouz

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

— Rudyard Kipling

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

— F. Sionil Jose

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

— Michael Mina

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

— Frank Borman

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.

— Antje Traue

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

— Doris Duke

I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about…

— Linda Lael Miller

I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern…

— James Callaghan

The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words,…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen…

— Katarina Witt

The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern…

— Paolo Gentiloni

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern…

— Nicholas Sparks

As I've watched the Berlin Wall come down, the cry for freedom in China, and the eastern bloc nations, I rejoice, because…

— Jerry Falwell

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with…

— Alexander Walker

Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest,…

— Annie Dillard

Putin saw the Ukrainian revolution as a challenge to him personally, and I think that's why he, in fact, over-reacted. I think…

— Anne Applebaum

I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of…

— Michael Hudson

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering…

— Aldous Huxley

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared…

— William Ellery Channing

The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager.…

— Reid Scott

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's…

— Jesse Jackson

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and…

— Mehmet Oz

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

— Tim Daly

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware,…

— Adam Rayner

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

— Jason Mantzoukas

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your…

— Thubten Yeshe

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

— Alfred Molina

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

— Sadao Araki

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

— Patti LuPone

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

Sydney CBD is the eastern city, Parramatta is the central city and Badgerys will be the third city in greater Sydney.

— Gladys Berejiklian

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

— Ron Pickering

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good…

— Hector Hugh Munro

If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad…

— Goran Visnjic