East Quotes - Page 36

• One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Thinking, America, Years

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

  Anthony Shadid

  War, Careers, World

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Beautiful, Christian, Heart

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• I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

  Francois Hollande

  Effort, Middle East, Amplification

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• It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.

  Vance Palmer

  Art, Character, Wind

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• The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

  Brad Falchuk

  Moving, Boston, Quality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Chicago, West Coast, Way

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• Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

  Stephen Walt

  Middle East, Would Be, Nuclear

  "Can Sanctions End Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 21, 2011.

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• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  J. Carter Brown

  Triumph, Association, Building

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• I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally.

  Trent Dilfer

  Eye, Sleep, West Coast

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• The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Japan, Asian

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• You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

  Cory Lidle

  Beautiful, Rivers, Manhattan

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• Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

  W. H. Auden

  Luxury, Soul, Hull

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• You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

  Standing Bear

  Brother, Children, Father

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• Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Running, Children

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• I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Scare, Middle East

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

  Bernie Sanders

  Middle East, Warfare, Want

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Progress, Middle East, Remember

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  George Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Night

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2740, ShandonPress

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• In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Religion

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• The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Moving, Humanity

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• For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

  Edmund Spenser

  Wise, Men, Reflection

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• The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, Now And Then, Conscious

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 6 (Mr Jarndyce)

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