Western Quotes

• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Believe, Heart

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Gun, Two

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• Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

  Clint Eastwood

  Western Movie, Western Films, Cowboy Movie

  "'Tis The Season For Hollywood Blockbusters". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. December 3, 2008.

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• All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from the Mossad.. with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the Western Powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Francesco Cossiga

  Country, America, Order

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• I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Western Movie, Western Films, Cowboy Movie

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

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lost Youth, Quiet

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Losing, Salute

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.32, Random House

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• If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

  Clint Eastwood

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  "Fictional character: Nick Pulovski". "The Rookie", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western heritage - the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.

  John Wayne

  Heart, Pride, Men

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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  The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Objectivity, Media

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Cowboy, Silence, Missing

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

  James Stewart

  Loyalty, Men, Giving

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

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• When in doubt, make a western.

  John Ford

  Doubt, When In Doubt

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• An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

  Milton Berle

  Horse, Hero, Kissing

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

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• I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Trying, Iconography

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. February 11, 2010.

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• When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

  Kevin Costner

  Drama, Thinking, Want

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• If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Monday, Stupid

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• To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.

  John Holdren

  Country, Law, Growth

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• I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.

  Rachel Kushner

  Growing Up, Car, Mind

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• I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

  Elliott Smith

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

  Evan Sayet

  Cute, Civilization, Evil

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• As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Views, Europe

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• A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world’s largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Powerful, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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