Quotes About East

I love being back on the East Coast.

The differences between East and West seem to have been continually on the increase, but this divergence can be said to have been one-sided, in the sense that it is only the West which has changes, whereas the East, broadly speaking, has remained much the same as it was in times which we are accustomed to call ancient, but which nevertheless are comparatively recent.

It bruises a little in the freedom of the west, while to the east it spills open like a pomegranate. The phone clicks and goes dead. Olivia hangs up, a newly minted orphan. A thing reaching toward the sun, ready for anything.

John Dominic Crossan demonstrates convincingly through art that "the West lost and the East kept the original Easter vision.

Son of Poseidon? East asked. I nodded. Took a dip in the Styx? Hudson asked. Yep. They made digusted sounds. Well that's perfect East said. Now how do we kille him?

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people's hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later, he believed, at one stage of the journey or another, all roads led to the New Jersey Turnpike.

Tingle, ting-le, tang-le toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens…wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock…one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest…O-U-T spells out…goose swoops down and plucks you out.

Indeed, our concept of "East versus West"—or, as it has been called, "the clash of civilizations"—arises from Greek opposition to Persia.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

From the east to western Ind,No jewel is like Rosalind.

I will to EgyptAnd though I make this marriage for my peace,I' the East my pleasure lies.

Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee:And was the safeguard of the west.

the land east of the Jordan was not good enough because it was outside of the realm of Christ's death.

I turned my face to the east and the first star that shimmered on the horizon. He held my hand, and it was the hand of the man I had married, lost and found again in the Badiyat ash-Sham, the fabled land of camels and caravans that lies just beyond the walls of the city of jasmine. To live with him would be a very great adventure indeed.

To those who would argue, correctly, that the teachings of the East offer deeper, richer levels of subtlety and sophistication than the more youthful and boisterous Americans, I'd reply that waking up is a youthful, boisterous business and that those who seek ever deeper layers of understanding are merely fulfilling ego's agenda of stagnation and self-preservation.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Hundreds in the East and in the West are pressing onwards towards this goal. and in the unity of the one ideal, in their common aspiration and endeavour, they will meet before the one Portal. They will then recognise themselves as brothers, severed by tongue and apparent diversity of belief, hut fundamentally holding to the same one truth and serving the same God.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.