West Quotes · Page 16

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

— Ilana Mercer

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

— Gregory Corso

In September of 2001, I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, working from my home for a tech start-up.

— Douglas Brunt

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I…

— Marjane Satrapi

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

— Melanie Fiona

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house…

— Mike Pence

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere…

— John Steinbeck

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer…

— Terry Pratchett

“The western world is a dishonest society of non-disclosure agreements, cash for silence, and the illegal removal of civil rights from those…

— Steven Magee

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the…

— Phillips Brooks

Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of…

— Buzz Aldrin

Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to…

— Wu Shanzhuan

Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely…

— Nelson Mandela

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs…

— Paul Driessen

Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back…

— Yaya Toure

Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

[Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even…

— Garry Kasparov

I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in…

— K. V. Thomas

Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking…

— Mooji

I absolutely love Ireland. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and I have strong ties here. Both my grandmothers…

— Emily Ratajkowski

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years…

— Phillip Noyce

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

For me, when you're standing in Parramatta you'll be looking to the west for the best jobs, not necessarily the east.

— Gladys Berejiklian

This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

— Uri Orbach

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

— Lenny Kravitz

I was struck down by the west coast. It was quarter to three but it don't do sleep.

— The Ready Set

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go…

— Bruce Babbitt

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point…

— Mother Teresa

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

— Djimon Hounsou

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all…

— Young Thug

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn't sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.

— Micah Richards

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

— Jim Justice

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

— Kofi Annan

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

— Kishore Mahbubani

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly…

— Andy Adams

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

— Irakli Okruashvili