East Quotes

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Al-Jazeera should not go unanswered in the Middle East.

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.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

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

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

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.