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source: Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2008). “Living Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly Man”, p.177, Harper Collins

topic: Christian, West, Abundance, Material Possessions

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

- Buffalo Bill

source: Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.110, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Men, Roaming, West, Gallant

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

- Buffalo Bill

topic: Home, Wife, West, Prairie

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

- Buffalo Bill

source: Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation

topic: Effort, West

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Life, Self, West, Self Sufficiency

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Winter, West, Danger

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Failure, Spain, West

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

- Charles Comiskey

topic: Chicago, West, Sides, West Side

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

- Charles Marion Russell

source: Charles Marion Russell (1966). “Good medicine: the illustrated letters of Charles M. Russell”

topic: May, West, Forget

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

- Charles Portis

topic: Culture, Clubs, West

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

- Charles Van Doren

topic: America, Creative, West, Education In America, Ability To See

We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

- Chittaranjan Das

source: "Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan: brief survey of life and work, provincial conference speeches, Congress speeches". Book by Chitta Ranjan Das, Rajen Sen, B.K. Sen, "Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921", 1926.

topic: Destiny, Individuality, West

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

- Chris Abani

topic: Impact, World, West

Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this

- Chris Pureka

topic: West, Turns

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

- Christopher Columbus

topic: League, East, West

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Inquiry, Phrases, West

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

- Cyril Smith

source: On the House of Commons, in 'Big Cyril' (1977) ch. 8

topic: Running, Farce, West, West End

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

- David Puttnam

source: "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

topic: Media, Corporations, West, Moguls, Public Discourse

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

- Dean Cavanagh

topic: Rap, Culture, West

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

- Debbie Allen

topic: Play, West, Prophet, Harlem

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Talking, West, Boring

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

- Diane Abbott

source: "Diane Abbott: I sent my son to private school so he wouldn't end up in a gang". www.mirror.co.uk. June 21, 2010.

topic: Children, Wall, West

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

- Dominique de Villepin

topic: World, West, Produce, Arab World

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: East, Needs, West, Selling More, Shipping

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

- E. P. Thompson

topic: Mind, East, West

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

- Ed Rendell

topic: People, Politics, West

East of the sun and west of the moon.

- Edith Pattou

topic: Moon, East, West

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

- Edouard Glissant

source: Édouard Glissant (1989). “Caribbean discourse: selected essays”, Caraf Books

topic: West, Projects

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

- Edward Said

topic: Effort, Orientalism, West

I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.

- Elaine de Kooning

topic: Naked, West, Firsts

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

topic: Country, West, Legacy

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

- Ezra Stiles

topic: Virginia, West, South Carolina, Merchants, Carolina

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Looks, Littles, West

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

- Fefe Dobson

topic: White, West

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

- Francois Gautier

topic: Caste System, West, Obsession, Castes

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

- Frank Dobson

topic: Definitions, West, Manhood

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Understanding, East, West

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

- George Ayittey

source: "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

topic: West, Economic, Individual, Extended Family

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

- George Monbiot

topic: Choices, Humanity, West, Complicity, Crimes Against Humanity

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

- George Saintsbury

source: George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

topic: Romance, Stories, West, Iliad

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

- Georgie Fame

topic: West, Firsts, Fantastic

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

- Greg Bear

topic: Thinking, People, West, Wild Wild West, Wild West

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens." "Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

- Habib Bourguiba

source: "TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty". content.time.com. December 2, 1957.

topic: Citizens, West, Interest

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

- Hal Borland

topic: Historical, West, Sun

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

- Hamid Karzai

topic: Able, West, Economic, Health Services

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

- Harry Belafonte

topic: School, West, Students, Dyslexia, West Indies

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

- Hassan Nasrallah

topic: Cities, West, Looks

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.

- Henry Clay

source: Speech in the Senate (1848)

topic: Patriotism, East, West

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

- Horace Greeley

topic: Home, West, Faces

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

- Horace Greeley

topic: Men, World, West

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

- Hugo Weaving

topic: Kids, Parent, West, Surrey, West Africa

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

- Huston Smith

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, West, Spiritual Teachers

Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.

- Ian Svenonius

topic: Government, Done, West

The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

- Imelda Marcos

topic: East, Philippines, West

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

- Ismail Haniyeh

topic: Government, Territory, West, Gaza, Under Siege

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Creative, Shadow, West, Rediscovery

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

- Jamal Lewis

source: "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

topic: East, West, East And West

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

- James Buchan

topic: Political, West, Financial, Financial Crisis

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

- James Kenneth Stephen

source: James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

topic: Sublime, Republic, West

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

- James Norman Hall

topic: Country, Roots, West

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

- Jamie Redknapp

topic: Dad, Ham, West, West Ham

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

- Jared Diamond

topic: Animal, West, Plant, West Africa, Domesticated Animals

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

- Jason Alexander

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: New York, Way, West

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

- Jay Inslee

topic: West, Facts, Energy, Enron, Enron Scandal

You can't go east and west at the same time.

- Jean Charest

topic: Easter, East, West, East And West

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.

- Jeremy Seabrook

source: Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.70, Verso

topic: Country, West, Rich

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

- Jessica Day George

source: Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Easter, East, West

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sunâ€¦

- Jim Morrison

topic: Evil, West, Sun, Wild Wild West, Evil World

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

- Joan Didion

topic: Sky, West, Afternoon, Late Afternoon

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

- Joe Gold

topic: West, Saws, Shows, Highlights, Mae

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

- Joe Manchin

source: "In maiden speech, Manchin steers towards center" by Josiah Ryan, thehill.com. February 3, 2011.

topic: Play, West, Energy, Virginians

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

- Joe Scarborough

topic: Home, West, Sides, West Side

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

- Joe Scarborough

topic: Thinking, Sides, West, West Side

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

- John George Nicolay

source: John George Nicolay (1922). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...”, p.183, Library of Alexandria

topic: Law, West, Distinction

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

- John Keegan

source: "Foreign Correspondent" with Jennifer Byrne, (ABC, Australia), October 10, 2001.

topic: Years, Islam, West

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

- John Lithgow

topic: West, Sides, Looks, Cabaret, Carousels

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

- John Masefield

topic: Wind, Bird, West

I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

- John Raese

topic: Proud, West, Hillbilly, Stumps, Virginians

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

- John Steinbeck

topic: Orange, California, West

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

- John Woo

source: Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 15, 2007.

topic: Lasts, West, Hong Kong

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

- John Woolman

source: John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.51, Boston : J.R. Osgood

topic: Years, West, Jersey, County

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

- Jose Maria Aznar

topic: Israel, West, Strategy

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

- Josh Hartnett

topic: Musical, Taste, West, Musical Taste

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

- Josh Schwartz

topic: Wings, West, Said

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

- Joshua Jackson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, West, Coast, Parallel Universe

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

- Jung Chang

topic: West, Firsts, Merit

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

- Kanye West

topic: Jordan, West, Scream, Refs, Egomaniacs

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

- Keith Carradine

topic: Men, Killers, West

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

- Ken Curtis

topic: Roles, West, Dramatic

In the West, you take people at their word.

- Ken Salazar

topic: People, West

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

- Kenneth Copeland

topic: Heaven, East, West

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

- Kenzaburo Oe

topic: Japan, Way, West

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

- Kim Wilde

topic: Husband, Musical, West, West End

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

- Kishore Mahbubani

source: "The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World". Book by Kishore Mahbubani, February 05, 2013.

topic: World, Asia, West

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

- Kit Williams

topic: Simple, East, West, Chariots

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

- Kwame Nkrumah

source: Kwame Nkrumah (1972*). “Selected Speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: First President of the Republic of Ghana”

topic: East, West, Faces

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

- L. Frank Baum

topic: Party, Wicked, West, Wicked Witch, Wicked Witch Of The West

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.

- Lady Gregory

topic: Lying, Men, West

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

- Lafcadio Hearn

source: Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition

topic: Literature, West, Ethical, Contemporary Literature

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

- Lakhdar Brahimi

topic: Stupid, West, Facts

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

- Lea Michele

topic: Play, Forever, West, West Side, West Side Story

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

- Lee Child

topic: College, West Point, West

The West to me is where the landscape is,

- Lee Friedlander

topic: Landscape, West

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

- Leigh Steinberg

topic: Bed, West, Strange, Byron

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

- Leona Lewis

topic: West, Towns, Ends, West End

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

- Leslie Ford

topic: Long, West, Dough

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

- Lexa Doig

topic: Girl, Easter, West, East Coast

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

- Lin Yutang

topic: Insane, Asylums, West

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

- Lionel Richie

topic: Bucks, West, Realizing

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

- Liu Xiaobo

source: Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.121, Harvard University Press

topic: Humanity, West, Natural

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

- Luke Perry

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Ohio, West

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

- Luther Allison

topic: Chicago, West, Sides, West Side

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: West, India, World

We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

topic: Israel, Years, West

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Two, People, West

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: World, West, Firsts, Third World

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

- Maria Cantwell

topic: Hiking, Energy, West

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

- Marian McPartland

source: "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

topic: New York, West, Coast, Rhythm Section

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

- Mark Steyn

topic: Fading, West, Population

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

- Mark Z. Danielewski

topic: Letting Go, Soil, West

It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

- Martin Brodeur

topic: Team, Games, West, Back In The Game

In Christ there is no East nor West.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: West, East, Christ

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

- Martin Sheen

topic: Reality, Wings, West, Parallel Universe

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

- Martin Van Buren

source: Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

topic: Home, Able, West, Mississippi, Cherokee

The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

- Mary Robinson

topic: Doors, Venture, West

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. â€¦ But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).

- Matthew Crawford

source: Matthew B. Crawford (2009). “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work”, p.146, Penguin

topic: Political, Damage, West

I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

- Matthew William Goode

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Beautiful, West, Stunning, Derry

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

- Mayer Hawthorne

topic: Growing Up, Healthy, West, Arbors

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

- Mehmet Oz

topic: Thinking, Medicine, West

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

- Melanie Fiona

topic: Perfect, Balance, West, Perfect Balance

Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.

- Mencius

topic: Water, Flow, West

Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

- Michael Harner

topic: West, Shamanism, Needed

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

- Mike Royko

topic: Country, Nuts, West

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

- Miriam Makeba

topic: Music, West, African Music

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

- Muhammad Abduh

topic: Islam, West, Saws

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

- Muhammad Asad

source: "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

topic: Views, World, West, Imitating, Outward Appearance

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

- Nat King Cole

topic: Travel, Way, West, Routes

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

- Niall Ferguson

source: "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners Don't Understand How Vulnerable Freedom Is'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2011.

topic: Taken, Today, West, Disrespected

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

- Niall Ferguson

topic: Historical, West, Half

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

- Niall Ferguson

source: "The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.

topic: Civilization, West, May

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Black, Identity, West

East is East, and West is San Francisco