East Quotes

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

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.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

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

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

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.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

It's east to start a war in any country

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.