West Quotes
1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors
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From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also…
— Michael Palin
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The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our…
— Ronald Reagan
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Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as…
— Ed Viesturs
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I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a…
— Herbert Hoover
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
— Samuel P. Huntington
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
— M.I.A.
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When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business…
— Richard Branson
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This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the…
— Francine Pascal
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Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or…
— Unknown Author
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For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our…
— George Lakoff
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God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.
— Mike Royko
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Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a…
— John Wayne
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God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or…
— Karen Armstrong
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent…
— Tim Winton
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Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the…
— John Denver
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The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West .…
— Billy Graham
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I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a…
— Lindsey Buckingham
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If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.
— Nat King Cole
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But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous…
— Friedrich Engels
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I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So…
— Joan Jett
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Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in…
— Swami Vivekananda
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