Orient Quotes

57 quotes by 51 authors

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show… — Frederick Lenz
The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one… — Eboo Patel
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through… — Henry Timrod
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River… — J. B. Priestley
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made… — Edward Said
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his professionâ€¦He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient… — William Wordsworth
The way you move â€” you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your… — Stephenie Meyer
When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit… — Robert Fisk
The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From… — Edward Said
God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her… — Amin Maalouf
You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the… — Unknown Author
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee… — Joe Biden
I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context… — Ravi Zacharias
Prayer is not what you are yelling about. It is what you are THINKING about, consciously or sub-consciously, even at this moment. Think POSITIVE, for… — N Atta Kusi Adusei

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