East Quotes - Page 2

• East is East, and West is San Francisco

  O. Henry

  San Francisco, West, Californians

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1661, ShandonPress

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• The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

  George Saunders

  Dubai, Years, San Francisco

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.22, A&C Black

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• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tombstone, Lying, Fighting

  The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

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• I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

  Muhammad Abduh

  Religious, Islamic, Western Culture

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• [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

  Eleanor Antin

  New York, Thinking, California

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• The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere. Eastern literature is still the poor relative that everyone wants to forget, the Cinderella who hasn't (yet) found her prince.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Looks, Literature, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Israel, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would be forthcoming and giving and sharing and allowing, excluding no one, then it wouldn't be possible to have wars in the Middle East, or poverty in Africa, or any of these kinds of things.

  Wayne Dyer

  War, Giving, Middle East

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

  Grace Paley

  Christian, Doors, House

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• Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

  Ben Stein

  Israel, Allies, Middle East

  "Economist Ben Stein". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 30, 2012.

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• [T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Voice, People

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• I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.

  Luke Goss

  Crazy, Paris, Mountain

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• I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all... and an exciting thing.

  Nina Hagen

  Men, East Germany, Band

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• I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

  Nina Hagen

  Hippie, East Berlin, Tradition

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• More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Errors, People

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• Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  Idries Shah

  Book, Philosophical, Mean

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Men, Europe

  "Networks Dodge Obama Linking ISIS Terror, Unrest in Ukraine to Events in Ferguson". www.newsbusters.org. September 24, 2014.

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• How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, School, Government

  "Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

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• So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.

  James Lileks

  Fall, Guy, Needs

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• If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

  Meryl Streep

  Two, Car, Middle East

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• Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Horse, Two

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