I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think. " These people believe that Osama bin Laden is being targeted not because of the World Trade Center and Washington; they are not convinced by the evidence that has been produced. They believe he's being targeted because he tells the truth.
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.
In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move. . . West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.
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.
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable,. . . . . . It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.
It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel. ' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. . . The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.