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Quotes About East

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
~ Jack Markell
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
~ Brooke Astor
I think Australia is an extremely relevant partner and a key instrument for the stability, the progress, and the support of the East Timorese.
~ Antonio Guterres
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
~ Rudyard Kipling
All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.
~ Teodor Flonta
Robbers of the world; having exhausted the land by their universal plunder, they rifle the deep. If their enemy is rich, they are rapacious; if he is poor, they lust for power; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. Robbery, slaughter and plunder they misname 'empire'; they make a wilderness and call it peace.45
~ Terry Jones
Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven that from the East glad message brings.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Ask me no more if east or westThe Phoenix builds her spicy nest;For unto you at last she flies,And in your fragrant bosom dies.
~ Thomas Carew
I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It's a beautiful place on the east coast. That's where I started riding bikes.
~ Charley Boorman
That'll put us about a hundred miles due east of Ho Chi Minh City in another five hours." The name always caught Max off guard. Vietnam's largest city would always be Saigon to him.
~ Clive Cussler
truly wanted to see east and west merge peacefully, but was unfortunately saddled with a populace that for the most part preferred religious rhetoric and inflammatory speech over enlightenment and liberty.
~ Vince Flynn
Las nubes [...] se movían libremente, como si estuvieran destinadas a ir de oeste a este en una misión de la mayor importancia que jamás sería revelada.
~ Virginia Woolf
Members of the Casa failed to see how Magellan could avoid trespassing on Portuguese interests by sailing west until he reached the East.
~ Laurence Bergreen
the East, notably Prester John, which added to its readability and appeal, even as they compromised its claims to authenticity.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The East will tolerate any amount of schism, but no heresy. The West will tolerant any amount of heresy, but no schism. We desperately need each other.
~ Charles A. Coulombe
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
~ Charles de Secondat
The twilight is the morning of his day, While sleep drops seaward from the fading shore, With purpling sail and dip of silver oar, He cheers the shadowed time with roundelay, Until the dark east softens into gray...
~ Edwin Markham, "The Cricket"
Rome's subsequent establishment of a papacy in place of the Rome patriarchate was a further effort to extend its credentials over the "lesser" ranks of patriarchs in the major Christian centers to the East. This issue of preeminence persists even today.
~ Graham E. Fuller
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.
~ Groucho Marx
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.
~ Groucho Marx
Perhaps coming up with a theory of information and its processing is a bit like building a transcontinental railway. You can start in the east, trying to understand how agents can process anything, and head west. Or you can start in the west, with trying to understand what information is, and then head east. One hopes that these tracks will meet.
~ James Gleick
The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.
~ Wesley Clark