West Quotes

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

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.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.

I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old, historical bonds is a reasonable, well-founded approach.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.