Quotes of East - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- O. Henry

“ Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth! ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ 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. ”

- King Hussein I

“ September 11 was a wake-up call for Muslims. It is not about East versus West. It is a conflict within Islam. We are the next target for extremists. ”

- King Abdullah of Jordan

“ I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River. ”

- Trygve Lie

“ The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Leitrim and in the County Lonford, where Irish died out a generation ago. ”

- Douglas Hyde

“ Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. ”

- Adam Michnik

“ 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. ”

- Brian Harvey

“ After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? ”

- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

“ You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I don't like politics per-se,... but I want get in there try and do something good, if that is possible. ”

- Robert Wilson

“ Aapne dil ka haal batana chod diya, humne bhi gehrai mein jaana chod diya. Holi se pehle hi aapne nahana chod diya? ”

- Unknown

“ The most important direction we can go isn't east or west or north or south, it is inside ourselves. There is a path to your own heart, your own treasure chest, and I would like you to follow it. ”

- Bernie Siegel

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. ”

- John Updike

“ We have a country which we can say is unique in the Middle East. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ Indeed, we do not seek to export our political ideas or experiences, a practice that has too often led to instability in the Middle East. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia. ”

- Daniel Pipes

“ On the third Tuesday of every September, floodgates are opened in a tall building on the East River in New York and a Niagara of rhetoric gushes forth for three months. ”

- Anthony Parsons

“ Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ”

- Taslima Nasrin

“ I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. ”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

“ We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction. ”

- Hosni Mubarak

“ We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East. ”

- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“ Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ”

- Golda Meir

“ News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair. ”

- Celia Thaxter

“ I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face. ”

- Queen Elizabeth II

“ Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. ”

- Philip Guedalla

“ And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.". ”

- Rudyard Kipling
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