West Quotes

1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. — John George Nicolay
Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one… — Glenn Greenwald
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income.… — Marc Reisner
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.… — Philip Wollen
California: The west coast of Iowa. — Joan Didion
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good. — Zhang Yimou
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time,… — Hans Rosling
Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look up’ at Sophiatown,… — Trevor Huddleston
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to… — John Burdett
Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped. — Andy Adams
The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something,… — Anthony Lawlor
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to… — Flora Lewis
In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. — Luther Allison
The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians. — Rodney Stark
The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but… — Gerald Lawson Sittser
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky… — Dave Barry
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you. — Louie Giglio
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay… — Frederick Buechner
When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with… — Unknown Author
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers. — Frederick Lenz
In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east… — Frederick Lenz
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match… — Jose Mourinho
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda
A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation. — Unknown Author

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