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The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.
— Ai Weiwei
I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.
— Amy Carlson
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
— Martin Buber
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
— Henry David Thoreau
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.
— Joachim Von Ribbentrop
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
— Duane Michals
The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can't think for herself
— David Henry Hwang
East of the sun and west of the moon.
— Edith Pattou
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
— Adeline Yen Mah
I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.
— Tayeb Salih
You don't realize how small your world is when you are a child. Your parents are your east and west, your sun and moon.
— Susan Meissner
In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt
if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful. — Tahir Shah
if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful. — Tahir Shah
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
— O. Henry
We are East & West looting each other.
— Deborah Levy
The sky, from one horizon to another, from east to west, from north to south, was utterly and completely black.
— Douglas Adams
In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.
— Santosh Kalwar
son for Loraq, no heir to unite dragon and harpy. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the
— George R R Martin
I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.
— John Steinbeck
For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
— Big Sean
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
— Gregory Corso
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
— Robert Mugabe
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
— Imelda Marcos
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.
— Shams Tabrizi
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.
— Tehyi Hsieh
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.
— Tessa Thompson
He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
— Mary Doria Russell
The Books of Lamentations and Ezekiel are located on both ends of the West and the East on the circular zodiac of Dendera.
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
Despite a frenzy of East-West diplomacy and negotiations, there was little sign that tensions were easing.
— Anonymous
The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.
— Shaquille O'Neal
My angel,-his name is Freedom,-
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap.
From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat. — Big Pun
From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat. — Big Pun
May the might be in the light, the beyond of east or west.
As the faith lies within a broken bayonet, an ending put best. — Rosca Marx
As the faith lies within a broken bayonet, an ending put best. — Rosca Marx
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
— Philip James Bailey
Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
— Benedict Wong
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
— Paul Henderson
We face neither East nor West; We face forward
— Kwame Nkrumah
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
— Nelson Mandela
The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
— Ellen Raskin
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.
— Richard Hovey
The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.
— Terry Pratchett
If you want to go east, don't go west.
— Ramakrishna
..culture is not monolithic either and is not the exclusive property of the East or West nor of the small groups of men and women.
— Edward Said
We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.
— George H. W. Bush
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
— Anna Funder
If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.
— Jessica Day George
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.
— Massimiliano Gioni
In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the west, deeds are done. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
— Ville Valo
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
— Frederick Lenz
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
— Jack Kerouac
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
— Marjane Satrapi
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
— Herodotus
Let's absurdify life, from east to west.
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. — Fernando Pessoa
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. — Fernando Pessoa
East Africa. Had Lance been deliberately misleading when he said West instead of East? Miss
— Agatha Christie
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
— E.P. Thompson
There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.
— Sean Taylor
The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis, March 2006, p73]
— Veronique Vienne
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
— Ameen Rihani
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
— Roberto Bolano
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
— Eric Lefkofsky
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
— Louie Giglio
One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.
— Eric Butterworth
Before I became the 'Great Test of the West, I was the 'Beast of the East.'
— Shaquille O'Neal
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
— Gautama Buddha
I have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West.
— Vaclav Havel
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
— Natalie Goldberg
I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'.
— Clarence Carter
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
— Kim Dae-jung
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.
— Tommy Bolin
If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.
— Jamal Lewis
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
— Rumi
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
— Jessica Day George
People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.
— Al-Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani
I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.
— Muhammad Abduh
The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees ... the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.
— Marilyn Ferguson
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.
— Angelique Kidjo
East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth!
— Richard Hovey
Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.
— Kenneth Copeland
The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.
— Klaus Schwab
In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.
— Li Hongzhi
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
— Chris Patten
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
— Paul Walker