Orient Quotes

57 quotes by 51 authors

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of… — John Gerard
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits… — Pope Leo XII
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course… — Douglas MacArthur
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,… — Ambrose Bierce
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply… — David Emerald Womeldorff
O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star. — John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here… — Francis Chan
I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It… — Dov Frohman
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the… — Henry Chesbrough
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread,… — Rex Stout
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope… — Alan Sugar
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. — Edward Said
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orientâ€”dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of… — Edward Said
India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the… — Megasthenes
The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success. — Daisaku Ikeda
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number… — Ernest Renan
He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of… — Albert J. Beveridge
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the… — Eric Voegelin

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