355 Quotes About East

Some societies, and some people here, too, have decided that if women copy the West and start wearing skirts and jeans, they will find freedom, or if they are allowed to go out of their homes to work they will find freedom, but a woman in jeans can be beaten as much as a woman in a burqa.

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

Z opuszczonymi rękami stał w oknie, patrząc w puste niebo. Nie czekał na wschód słońca. Wschód to był tylko kierunek, na który wychodziło okno.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

A strikingly large number of our settlements are oriented to the west and, where circumstances permit, relocate in a westward direction. The east stands for lost causes. Especially at the time that the continent of America was being colonized, it was noticeable that the townships spread to the west even was their eastern districts were falling apart.

I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind."Charles," he replied.

The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East.

I always found in myself a dread of the west and a love of the east.

إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق.