Western Quotes · Page 14

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

— Ridley Scott

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

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

— Samuel P. Huntington

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

— John Fahey

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

— Tony Blair

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 Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get…

— Morgan Brittany

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world,…

— Amos Oz

I think terrorists are trying to create instability in Turkey. They're trying to break Turkey apart from where she belongs, which is…

— Egemen Bag?s

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a…

— Moses Finley

Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin…

— Justo L. Gonzalez

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male,…

— Catharine MacKinnon

I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine…

— Brad Willis

One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is…

— Bernard Lewis

While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having…

— Ali Sina

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what…

— Calvin Coolidge

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people…

— Ronald Reagan

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you…

— Clint Eastwood

The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.…

— Samuel Ruiz

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

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

— Charles Frazier

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

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

— Paul Keating

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what…

— Ken Livingstone

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

— George Burns

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

— Eric Rohmer

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

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

— Betsy Hodges

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

— Michael Shermer

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste…

— Ibn Warraq