Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east. . . It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself. . . I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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.
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.
I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally.
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.
Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.