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Quotes About East

All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with red and the pastures turned green.
~ Robert Olmstead
Cold purple shadows rose in the east, crept slowly across the prairie, then rose in heights on heights of darkness from which the stars swung low and bright.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450
~ Alain de Botton
Masterpieces should be kept for High Holidays of the Spirit"—for our own personal Christmases and Easters, not for any old Wednesday.
~ Alan Jacobs
Jakarta. Aku setuju. Kota ini biangnya dualisme. Antara ingin Timur dan berlagak Timur, sembari terdesak habis oleh Barat sekaligus paling keras mengutuk-ngutuk.
~ Dewi 'Dee' Lestari
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.
~ Diane Kruger
If you think you are lost: beware bending the map. Don't say maybe it was a pond, not a lake; maybe the stream flowed east, not west. Leave a trail as you go. Try to mark trees.
~ Jenny Offill
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
~ Jessica Day George
It was almost exactly like the caves to the east where my girl cousins met their swains to canoodle.
~ Jessica Day George
The difference between being and having is not essentially that between East and West. The difference is rather between a society centered around persons and one centered around things.
~ Erich Fromm
The east wind is blowing all the water out." "The hell with the east wind," Thomas Hudson said. As he said the words, they sounded like a basic and older blasphemy than any that could have to do with the Christian religion. He knew that he was speaking against one of the great friends of all people who go to sea. So since he had made the blasphemy he did not apologize. He repeated it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.
~ Andrew Ramer
Tym bardziej, ?e i Francja, i Europa mia?y ten geograficzny potrzask w dupie. To by? dla nich Wschód, a Wschód po prostu zas?ugiwa? na to, co dostawa?.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
The end of the third millennium saw the arrival in the east of Amorite ... who settled west of Euphrates ... and used Akkadian in writing.
~ Angel Sáenz-Badillos
The Rat Office was at the top of the East Gate Lookout Tower. Stanley took the quick route, running along the top of the Castle wall, over The Hole in the Wall Tavern, which even Stanley did not know existed. The rat quickly reached the Lookout Tower and scurried into a large drainpipe that ran up the side. Soon he emerged at the top, jumped onto the parapet and knocked on the door of a small hut bearing the
~ Angie Sage
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
~ David Mamet
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
~ Morris West
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in Russia, and White House spokesman Jay Carney appears flummoxed and wrong-footed as the mantle of free speech and liberty appears to pass from West to East.
~ Max Keiser
The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.
~ Ashraf Barhom
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
~ Michael T. Flynn
When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.
~ Robert Fisk
Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him. – Matthew 2:2
~ Robert J. Morgan