West Quotes - Page 15

• West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment

  Ray Wilkins

  Commitment, Ham, Committed

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as roses; pristine white acacia petals shed an enshrouding pale-green aura. Mild evening breezes made both the mulberry leaves and the acacia petals dance and whirl, filling the woods with a soft rustle.

  Mo Yan

  Beautiful, Summer, Sunset

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• The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

  Bernard Dowiyogo

  People, Destruction, United Nations

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• We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

  Cobi Jones

  Determination, Team, Thinking

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• There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

  Lester Thurow

  Teamwork, Successful, Moon

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• She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Sunrise, Library, Faces

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.4, Penguin

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• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Moving, Moon

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• On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

  Carrot Top

  Beach, School, Weekend

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• In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There is a reason for this: whenever two persons fall in love, both of them present what is beautiful in themselves to the other and hide the ugly. When you fall in love, whether you are a man or a woman, you show your most beautiful face to the other - but it is not your reality, it is not your totality.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Falling In Love

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• We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

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• The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

  Ellen Raskin

  Sunset, East, Towers

  Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.1, Obelix Books

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• Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

  John Berger

  Wall, Shopping, Shadow

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.896, Vintage

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• The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Country, Keys

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• In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a strong ego, how can you survive? Life is a struggle; if you are egoless you will be destroyed. Then who will resist? Who will fight? Who will compete? And life is a continuous competition. Western psychology says: Attain to the ego, be strong in it.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Struggle, Fighting

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• But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. This is the paradox - in the West ego is taught, in the East egolessness is taught. But in the West it is easy to dissolve the ego, in the East it is very difficult.

  Rajneesh

  Understanding, Ego, Taught

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• ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I have contemplated their order from the Magi of the East to the Saints of the West and I have found no difference of character, but of more or less caution, in proportion to their information or ignorance on whom their interested duperies were to be played off. Their sway in New England is indeed formidable. No mind beyond mediocrity dares there to develop itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Lying, Father

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• If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Sky, India

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• In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

  Colin Welland

  Life, Baby, Rugby League

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• I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Book, Reading, East

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• He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

  Keith Carradine

  Men, Killers, Killing

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• The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Losing, Cold

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• It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

  Greg Bear

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, People

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• You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Girl, Weather, Work Out

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• If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls.

  Geert Wilders

  Fall, Light, Israel

  "‘Marked for Death’: Beck Interviews Anti-Islamist Dutch MP Geert Wilders" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.theblaze.com. May 2, 2012.

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