East Quotes - Page 30

• One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Easter, War, Looks

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• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

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

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• We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

  Ronald Reagan

  Dog, Mad, Goal

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• It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Clouds

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.290

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

  John Conyers

  Children, Men, Middle East

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• A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Nuclear, World

  Margaret Thatcher's Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George's Halls, the Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Wise, Simple, Men

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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• I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

  Tom Robbins

  Journey, Men, Taught

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

  Wilfred Owen

  Reading, Fighting, Aunt

  Wilfred Owen (1998). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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• I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

  Mickey Cohen

  Men, Castles, Kingdoms

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• They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

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

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• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  Alcee Hastings

  Aunt, Organization, Leader

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• The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

  Alcee Hastings

  Flames, California, Judging

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• Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, America, Squares

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• It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

  Madeleine Albright

  Middle East, Dove, Making Peace

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• Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.

  Halford Mackinder

  Heart, Islands, Europe

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• If you're from Philly and you're listening to this, please know that the rest of the world looks at Philly and they're jealous of your food. I promise. And if you're not from Philly, and you've never been here and you're thinking about coming somewhere to the East Coast, come to Philly and eat the food because the food. Is. Amazing.

  Duff Goldman

  Jealous, Thinking, Listening

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• Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

  Katherine Boo

  Children, Blow, Vanity

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Dream, Cities, Paris

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• Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Europe, Middle East, Conflict

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• In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Black And White, Mexican, Shade

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Understanding, Wish, Germany

  "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, (p. 562), 2002.

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• There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Oil, Middle East, Earth

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