143 Quotes About West

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.

Westerners do not know what is going on in Venezuela because westerners simply refuse to know what is going on in Venezuela and prefer to believe in a parallel reality. Yes, believe, that's the word, 'to believe', as the opposite of 'toknow'.

Western governments invaded Iraq, dismantled Libya, interfered without success in Yemen and Syria. Yet North Korea causes all the trouble?

سعدتُ كثيراً في البدء، لأن العلم قوي في الغرب، لدرجة أن الدين هو ما يتم تطويعه أحياناً ليواكب العلم وليس العكس، ونادراً ما يتجرأ رجال الدين على مناقضة العلم صراحة لأنهم يعرفون طبيعة الشعوب ومدى اتساع آفاقها، ومعارضة العلم في أوروبا بمثابة انتحار على الصعيد الشخصي والفكري، تماماً كما هو الأمر بالنسبة إلى محاربة الفكر الديني في الشرق الأوسط. سعدت بالنهاية لأن البرهان أقوى من الفرضية هناك، وليس العكس.

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be.

My codes says that... the world is based on a chessboard rule... First the White pieces then the black pieces... white.... black...white...black... and who is going to end that?- Or this goes endless!? ( I need the limit..... I am not endless in my choices... I can't give you all... I can give you data with a limit.)

These old Australians or Californians who spend all their days staring at the ocean without leaving their limousines, which they have turned into their panoramic childhood sites and their coffins, and who dream there, while awaiting the last wave, the one that will come from the depths of the ocean to engulf them.

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.

And thus ended America's love affair with the West.