West Quotes - Page 14

• Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Bird, East, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

  John Masefield

  Wind, Bird, Cry

  John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”

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• We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies.

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Political, Deceit

  Colin Powell at Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2001-2009.state.gov. December 7, 2001.

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• The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

  Brian Mulroney

  Japan, West Germany, United States

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• I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

  Paz Vega

  Hollywood, Spain, Pieces

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• It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

  Martin Brodeur

  Team, Games, Tough

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• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

  Charles C. Mann

  Powerful, Russia, Aztec

  Charles C. Mann (2006). “1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, p.74, Vintage

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• In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

  George Ayittey

  Economic, Individual, Social

  "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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• In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Wife, Modern, Traditional

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• Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called ‘misosophy’ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Hatred, Results

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

  Harvey Cox

  Christian, Europe, America

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• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Father, Guitar

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• There are poems
  that are never written,
  that simply move across
  the mind
  like skywriting
  on a still day:
  slowly the first word
  drifts west,
  the last letters dissolve
  on the tongue,
  and what is left
  is the pure blue
  of insight, without cloud
  or comfort.

  Linda Pastan

  Moving, Clouds, Blue

  Linda Pastan (2009). “給要離家的女兒”, p.38, 書林出版有限公司

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• The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking survey of the varieties the latter of these beliefs has had, both within and outside the Christian tradition. Becoming Divine reconstructs an accessible and fascinating mosaic of this too-long neglected idea, utilizing figures as disparate as Orphic cultists, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Christian, Religious, Destiny

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• The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Support, Firsts, Steps

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• We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

  Arthur Laffer

  Recovery, East, West Coast

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• The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.

  Pentti Linkola

  Thinking, Issues, Hatred

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.159, Arktos

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• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Eye, Media, Gdp

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  People, Baghdad, East

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• We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

  Hillary Clinton

  Challenges, Stage

  "Hillary Wants to 'Change Our Country'", www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2007.

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• I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

  Rumi

  East, Boundaries, Breasts

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• You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Aunt, West Germany, East Germany

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• Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

  Bobby Hull

  Suffering, Pioneers, Done

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• To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Integrity, Crazy, Moving

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