West Quotes

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.

We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

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

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of - and forth!

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

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

When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can't imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving.

The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.

The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

If we repeal Obamacare, it's the Wild West, and then you're gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something.

I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.