Quotes About Eastern

Nothing exists but atoms and the void"—so wrote Democritus. And it is "void" that underlies the Eastern teachings—not emptiness or absence, but the Uncreated that preceded all creation, the beginningless potential of all things.

But it's obvious," they invariably answered. "If it's an acute illness, like pneumonia or an infarction or appendicitis, you have to see Western doctors. They have fast, effective treatments for crises and accidents. But if it's a chronic disease, then you should see a Tibetan doctor. The treatments take longer to work, but they treat the terrain in depth. In the long term it's the only thing that really works.

And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

She's a slinky sort of person, no angles at all; and magnetic - you can't take your eyes off her. She's dressed like a Westerner, but her eyes have a slant to them. They are the eyes of an Easterner. She doesn't walk like our women do, she seems to writhe all in one piece - undulates is the word. ("Kiss Of The Cobra")

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Above all, Christianity must be presented in a way which Eastern peoples could understand and appreciate.

The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

There are entire movements, many of them rooted in the wisdom of the ancients, many stolen, Westernized, and simplified from the East. It's all right, though, social media will reduce them to a pithy pair of lines.

We might say that Western thinking is uniformly dualistic in its nature, whereas Eastern thinking is founded upon monism, whose overarching conception of reality is based on a single unifying principle rather than paired opposites.

Many of the eastern and southern women here greatly resent the fact that there are to be colored women in the delegations.

However, he would never advise one of his players to enroll there. An assistant from Eastern Illinois was a former teammate at Kent State and wanted Ecko's inside scoop on Awino Leyano. Ecko thought it was a good match, but he knew that his old pal had one more year on a contract that would not be renewed

On a map of Arizona, the Colorado River can be seen making a wide circle around the northern and eastern half of the state.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

It's the Cuyahoga River that puts the cleave in Cleveland, separating East from Midwest, integration from segregation, a place that sees itself as America's westernmost Eastern city from a place that sees itself as the easternmost midwestern city. The rest of the country sees it as neither, though it must be said that the rest of the country is perversely wont to misunderstand Cleveland.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Washington displayed a remarkable indifference to the political future of the eastern battlefields until it was too late.