West Quotes - Page 6

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.