West Quotes · Page 18

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the…

— Esther McVey

“people coming west with more dreams than plans and a high percentage of them failing.” “Do”

— Sydney Tooman Betts

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

— Eric Garcetti

In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

— Sophie Hannah

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

— Young Thug

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

— Djimon Hounsou

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

I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught…

— Tom Rooney

There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the…

— Yitzhak Rabin

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi…

— Walter Ulbricht

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the…

— Robert Loveman

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the…

— Sarah Lacy

“Beyond relief and recognition, there is a more complicated thing--an understanding that the machinery of the West has never had much of…

— Omar El Akkad

'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I…

— Claire Coffee

I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up…

— Irshad Manji

Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and…

— Roger E. Olson

If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come…

— Ann Wright

I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as…

— Hayao Miyazaki

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of…

— Nhat Hanh

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman,…

— Antonio Tabucchi

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do…

— Junot Diaz

The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule…

— Ibn Warraq

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

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

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

— Irakli Okruashvili

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

— Kishore Mahbubani

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

— David Hockney

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

— Jane Fonda

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

— Ameen Rihani

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

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

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

— Melanie Fiona

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

— Antonio Munoz Molina

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

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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