Eastern Quotes
298 quotes by 274 authors
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality,…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell…
— Richard P. Bland
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I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly…
— William O. Douglas
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
— Leslie Caron
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Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has…
— Danny Masterson
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I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.
— Jamie Bell
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I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something…
— Ramsey Campbell
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Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin…
— Ghassan Kanafani
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Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit…
— Annie Dillard
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Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.
— Bill Walton
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
— Garry Shandling
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In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
— Erich Fromm
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Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
— Malala Yousafzai
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Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
— Niki Lauda
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When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
— Sarah Zettel
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To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to…
— William Davenant
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Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern…
— Richard J. Foster
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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