West Quotes

1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have… — John J. Pershing
Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again. — Adolf Hitler
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble.… — George S. Patton
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. — Ethan Suplee
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it… — Benjamin Disraeli
Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south. — William Shakespeare
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. — Bertrand Russell
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio,… — John Lahr
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the… — Henry David Thoreau
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he… — Ronald Reagan
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did… — Majel Barrett
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it… — Richard Jeni
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land. — Rick Santorum
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to… — Mahatma Gandhi
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in… — Sugata Mitra
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence:… — Octavio Paz
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where… — Rajneesh
In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you… — Unknown Author
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
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the… — Ayn Rand

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