East Quotes - Page 15

• Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Bridges, Rivers

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wmd, Israel, Agreement

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Middle East, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Middle East, Explosions, Difficult

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

  Don Rickles

  Gigs, Break, Coast

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Race, Long, West

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were in prison, and at the end of 1970, November 5, 1970, to be exact, he had said to Mujib, "Should I arrest Bhutto or not?" Look, the only reason why he reversed his schedule was that in West Pakistan he couldn't control the situation as in East Pakistan. Besides Mujib has never been intelligent - he let himself be backed into a corner.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Party, Intelligent, People

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• The same goes for the refugees. Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi says ten million. It's obvious she started with that figure in order to legalize her offensive and invade East Pakistan. But when we invited the United Nations to check, the Indians were opposed. Why were they opposed? If the figure were exact, they shouldn't have been afraid of its being verified.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Order, Pakistan, Offensive

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• [A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, School, Church

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Black, Middle East

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, People

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, Coffee, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

  Steven Knight

  Organization, People, Evil

  Source: deadline.com

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• The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.

  Steven Knight

  Play, India, Stories

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think it's yet to be seen how that is going to shape up. But I can tell we all know that President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't like the Iran deal, thinks it's a terrible document, thinks it will create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which it already is beginning to do.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, Race, Iran

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Battle, World

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.

  Vaclav Havel

  Good Relationship, President, Degrees

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The Far East and Eastern Siberia are already developing according to a Chinese scenario, the full scope of which will be revealed in the near future. In the next 10 to 15 years, a lot of Russian territories will become at least de facto Chinese. This will change the situation in Russia fundamentally.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Years, Chinese

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for a new geopolitical place. But in the Middle East and the Gulf, you can find German, French and British goods everywhere. German relations to these states are very good, as are English and French relations. Does this make them Arab-oriented?

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, Doe, States

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". DER SPIEGEL interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Europe, Turkeys, Underestimate

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". DER SPIEGEL interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• There has been sort of, if you will, a moral interventionism on the part of the United States trying to reshape countries in our own image. Now, we had to go into Afghanistan. We didn't have to go into Iraq. But the idea that you could create a Vermont in the Middle East like that was naive from the beginning.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Ideas, Iraq

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

  Jose Saramago

  Rivers, Small Villages, Peasants

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• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Easter, Real, War

  "THE CULTUREPULP Q&A: 'Persepolis' creator Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Mike Russell, culturepulp.typepad.com. January 25, 2008.

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• Charlotte, Will’s being vexing.' 'And the sun has come up in the east,' said Jem, to no one in particular.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sun, Come Up, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!

  Stephen King

  Dream, Dark, Blue

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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