East Quotes - Page 18

• I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

  Bob McDonnell

  Virginia, Energy, Made

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• The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

  David Miliband

  Christian, Climate, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

  Dylan Moran

  War, Mysterious, Cold

  "Interview: Irish Comic Dylan Moran Takes America by Typhoon". Interview With Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  Nas

  New York, Attitude, War

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Lying, Middle East, Needs

  "Benjamin Netanyahu on Alleged Rift With President Obama, Mideast Peace Process". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2010.

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• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Easter, New York, Break

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• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Japan, Middle East

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fun, Home, Cities

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• You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Despair, Middle East, Do The Best

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• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Middle East, World

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• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Middle East, Century

  "Paul Ryan: Good for GOP, bad for comedy" by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

  Carre Otis

  Father, School, Law

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, Medicine, West

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• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Talking, Variables

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

  Mandy Patinkin

  War, Violent Acts, Sides

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• I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Directors, Boards, Middle

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• What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Country, Ambition

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• You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

  Shimon Peres

  Husband, Rights, Giving

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• The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

  Shimon Peres

  Middle East, Poverty, Problem

  "Israeli President Shimon Peres Applauds Hollywood's Influence on Youth" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

  Shimon Peres

  Swimming, Years, Israel

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• The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Middle East, Hegemony

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• The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

  John Podhoretz

  Suicide, Children, Media

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• Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

  Carroll Quigley

  Christian, Successful, Historical

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• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Technology, Thinking, Oil

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