Orient Quotes

57 quotes by 51 authors

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in… — Jane Elliott
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was… — John Milton
This transformation is already proceeding, and if we want to consciously find these evolutionary currents operating in our own being as well-if we want to… — Ken Wilber
The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense. — Gary Shteyngart
I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester. — S. J. Perelman
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an… — Kenny Smith
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the… — William Howard Taft
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of… — Marilynne Robinson
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… — Andre Gide
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you… — John Green
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. — Frederick Lenz
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very… — Morley Safer
From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train. — George Burns
Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating.… — Frederick Lenz
I had been going out to Orient for several years. — Christopher Bollen
I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express… — Christopher Bollen

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