Eastern Quotes

298 Eastern quotes by 271 unique authors

How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set… — A. E. Housman
25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?' 26… — Neil Gaiman
There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but… — Stephen Kendrick
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and… — Anne Lamott
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful… — John Milton
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance… — Martha Graham
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was… — Oscar Wilde
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that… — Anne Rice
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica… — Douglas Adams
Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia.… — Jennifer Rardin
Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place.… — Jerry Spinelli
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended… — Anthony de Mello
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the… — Walter Pater
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who… — Adolf Hitler
He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right now, but do… — Richelle Mead
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then… — Chogyam Trungpa
Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was… — Megan McCafferty
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern… — John le Carre
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people,… — Eric Weiner
…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special… — Richard Dawkins
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. — Malala Yousafzai
Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'! — Unknown Author

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