West Quotes

1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors

You have to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent… — Stephen Harper
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. — Jessica Lynch
I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point. — George Stoneman
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic… — Donna J. Haraway
One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them… — Kathryn Bigelow
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some… — Jack Handey
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was… — Arthur Conan Doyle
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa… — Ed Royce
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any… — Margaret Thatcher
The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well. — Margaret Thatcher
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the… — Margaret Thatcher
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of… — Margaret Thatcher
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between… — Margaret Thatcher
Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal… — Donald E. Westlake
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio… — Ted Strickland
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California… — Michiko Kakutani
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation… — Samuel P. Huntington
And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc,… — Samuel P. Huntington
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. — Samuel P. Huntington
With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing… — Katherine Boo
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up… — M. John Harrison

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