East Quotes - Page 37

• I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Wall, Adventure, World

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• I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

  M.I.A.

  Bridges, Want, West

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

  John W. Snow

  Alaska, Important, Middle East

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Safety, Tree, Tanks

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West....
  My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

  Rumi

  Christian, Buddhist, West

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• King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

  Immortal Technique

  Kings, Usa, Democracy

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• Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom and never even to have a choice in the matter?

  George W. Bush

  Children, Men, Choices

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• When people look for the road in the clouds
  The cloud road disappears
  The mountains are tall and steep
  The streams are wide and still
  Green mountains ahead and behind
  White clouds to east and west
  If you want to find the cloud road
  Seek it within

  Hanshan

  White, Clouds, People

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• In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important takes, my mother told me, is to protect it.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  Mother, Believe, People

  Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.29, Doubleday

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• Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.

  Sara Teasdale

  Dream, Stars, War

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.95, Рипол Классик

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• If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

  Jessica Day George

  Easter, West, Ifs

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

  Archie Panjabi

  Want, Littles, Taste

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• Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Car, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

  Martha MacIsaac

  Canada, Towns, Small Town

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• Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.

  Craig Ferguson

  Calling, Biden, Loud

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• We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

  Garrison Keillor

  Soldier, Middle East, Politics

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• There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Russia, Kgb, Events

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• Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

  Suzy Kassem

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Past, Years

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• I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

  Gregory Corso

  Easter, New York, Men

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• Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

  Rick Larsen

  Easter, Play, Middle East

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• We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Country, Easter, Real

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Stories of Gods and Heroes”, p.6, Thomas Bulfinch

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• The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

  Robert Trout

  Easter, Army, India

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• Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Easter, Support, West

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