East Quotes - Page 8

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.