Quotes and Sayings About Asia

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
-- Ahmet Davutoglu

#Land #United States #Asia

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#War #Asia #Scared

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet ...
-- Alexandra David-Neel

#Travel #Asia #Traveler

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.
-- Amy Chua

#Psychological Disorders #West #Asia

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
-- Anais Nin

#Art #Asia #Language

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.
-- Andy Lau

#Idols #Asia #Hong Kong

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
-- Bai Ling

#Sex #People #Asia

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.
-- Ban Ki-moon

#Rights #Together #Asia

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Military #Government #Asia

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Desire #Asia #Imperialism

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.
-- Chris Patten

#Vision #East #Asia

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
-- Dan Buettner

#Asia #Singapore

Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.
-- Eleanor Coppola

#Asia #Hong Kong #Supermarkets

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.
-- Francois Gautier

#Writing #Europe #Asia

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.
-- Han Suyin

#Long #Done #Asia

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.
-- Hassanal Bolkiah

#East #Kingdoms #Asia

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#People #Culture #Asia

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
-- J. William Fulbright

#Feelings #Excess #Asia

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
-- Jackie Chan

#Years #People #Asia

I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.
-- Jeb Bush

#Years #Four #Asia

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.
-- John Abizaid

#Powerful #Earth #Asia

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.
-- John Mearsheimer

#Believe #Europe #Asia

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.
-- K.P. Yohannan

#Everyday #United States #Asia

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
-- Kenzaburo Oe

#Country #Japan #Asia

From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
-- Kenzaburo Oe

#Japan #Views #Asia

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.
-- Khaleda Zia

#America #Asia #Southeast Asia

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Asia #Unification #Stability

We have a small wish in 2008. We would like to conquer Asia.
-- Kim Hyo-yeon

#Wish #Asia #Conquer

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.
-- Kishore Mahbubani

#World #Asia #West

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.
-- LeCrae

#Struggle #Haiti #Asia