East Quotes

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

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.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Al-Jazeera should not go unanswered in the Middle East.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.