West Quotes

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

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.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

You can't go east and west at the same time.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

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!

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.

Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.