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Quotes About East

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
~ John Steinbeck
I remember that the Gabilan Mountains to the east of the valley were light gay mountains full of sun and loveliness and a kind of invitation, so that you wanted to climb into their warm foothills almost as you want to climb into the lap of a beloved mother.
~ John Steinbeck
Since the East End School was way to hell and gone across town and the children who lived east of Main Street attended there, I will not bother with it.
~ John Steinbeck
always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.
~ John Steinbeck
Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
~ Unknown
Let the winds come from the sea and blow seeds about, seeds of the north, south, east, and west. Let the moths beat their wings against the windows and the fishermen cast curious glances. Let them come, let them return, let them reach.
~ Unknown
My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
~ Will Durant
the rough boundaries of East and West Germany were effectively set where the various Allied armies stopped moving forward. The day the war ended,
~ Unknown
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
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
Politicians rise in the east and set in the west and nothing you can change about them.
~ Marlon James
About forty turns ago there was a colony in the east, and a warrior named Swift, who had to change her name to Sorrow...
~ Martha Wells
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
~ Martin Buber
subject would largely have to have been a retraction. Because all the while, I was looking for lies to expose. No bit of information existed merely as a fact but as a clue to a deep underlying truth that would reveal a massive cover-up by both East and West.
~ Unknown
The east face is no easy climb. But it is well established, with lots of fixed ropes. Because these ropes are already anchored in place, it might be better suited to your level of experience.
~ Unknown
I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
~ Matthew Fox
American dismay in the face of those early defeats was assuaged by skilful propaganda. The United States had much less to lose in the East than did the British Empire.
~ Max Hastings
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Theology does not come easily. Better put, faithful theology comes by grace or not at all, while idolatry comes quite naturally to those of us who make our bed east of Eden.
~ Unknown
Two fundamental gifts of God have been corrupted: the light of reason in the West, the fire of authentic spirituality in the East.
~ Unknown
East thus avoided the economic polarization between creditors and debtors that ended up imposing bondage on most of classical antiquity.
~ Michael Hudson
We are so accustomed to thinking of European civilization as the vanguard of the world that we forget that for much of human history, the European peninsula was at the receiving end of the miracles of the East. Over the millennia, innovations such as Mesopotamian agriculture, the Phoenician alphabet, Greek philosophy, and Arab bookkeeping all flowed from east to west. Both Christianity and Islam followed the same route. So did wheat, olives, sugar, and spices.
~ Unknown