Western Quotes · Page 26

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

— Ridley Scott

“That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.”

— Michael Monroe

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

— Herman Melville

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

— Om Puri

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

— Samantha Power

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and…

— Tony Blair

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff,…

— John Fahey

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer…

— Elliott Abrams

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very…

— Jason Wu

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],…

— James Madison

Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -…

— Victor Davis Hanson

From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for…

— Ahdaf Soueif

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western…

— T Bone Burnett

“Her gaze locked with his and she felt her heart quicken. Slowly, he bent his head until his lips were only a…

— B.J. Daniels

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I always say the Syrian problem as isolated case, as Syrian case, is not very complicated. What makes it complicated is the…

— Bashar al-Assad

We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy,…

— Elisabet Sahtouris

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended…

— Michelle Yeoh

Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users…

— Raymond Kendall

The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A…

— Carlos Cuaron

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to…

— John Dos Passos

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

— Samuel P. Huntington

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had…

— John Shelby Spong

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance…

— Tommy Franks

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

— Paul Keating

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

— Carl Jung

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

— Charles Frazier

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

— Tilden Edwards

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate…

— Samuel P. Huntington

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization…

— Bill Walton

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and…

— Joseph Monninger

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

— Mohammad Khatami

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

— Deepak Chopra

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

— Michael Shermer