Quotes and Sayings About West
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
-- Abdallah II -
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
-- Abdus Salam -
If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
-- Agnes Smedley -
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
-- Alan Furst -
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
-- Alexander Siddig -
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.
-- Amy Chua -
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
-- Andre Malraux -
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
-- Andre Malraux -
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?
-- Andrew Jackson -
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
-- Ang Lee -
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.
-- Ani DiFranco -
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
-- Anna Funder -
The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.
-- Ariel Sharon -
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
-- Arthur Laffer -
The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.
-- Barack Obama -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
-- Barbara Amiel -
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
-- Beau Bridges -
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
-- Ben Hogan -
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
-- Ben Nicholson -
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
-- Bernard DeVoto
