West Quotes
1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors
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Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and…
— Bobby Hull
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To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment
— Ray Wilkins
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You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection…
— Bill Bryson
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The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry…
— Mo Yan
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The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.
— Unknown Author
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We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East…
— Cobi Jones
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There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men…
— Lester Thurow
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
— Thomas Pynchon
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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the…
— Plutarch
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On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then…
— Carrot Top
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In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There…
— Rajneesh
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We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think…
— Nhat Hanh
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The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
— Ellen Raskin
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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing…
— John Berger
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The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic…
— E F Schumacher
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In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a…
— Rajneesh
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But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem…
— Rajneesh
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... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
— Mother Teresa
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The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a…
— Colin Welland
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I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the…
— Edward G. Robinson
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He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have…
— Keith Carradine
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The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.
— Richard M. Nixon
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