I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.
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.
In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they or Germany, or even little Belgium might find it ripe for the taking.
I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U. N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them.
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
People in the East get a very skewed sense of America as this enormously rapaciously sexual place, this place where you have rappers and you have Donald Trump and things like that, which leads to a lot of confusion.
It's east to start a war in any country