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Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized. — Padma Lakshmi

The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills. — Mike Bond

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality. — Tilden Edwards

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? — Sen No Rikyu

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty. — Rand Paul

Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed. — Massimo Carlotto

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. — Prince Charles

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon. — Tom Douglas

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard. — Peter Zilahy

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this? — Manfred Gerstenfeld

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. — Robert Breault

Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television. — James Purdy

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army. — Sadao Araki

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off. — Arsenie Boca

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe. — Michael Moore

while they had been talking the stars had grown fainter and great gaps of white light were appearing in the greyness of the eastern sky. — C.S. Lewis

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter. — Vaclav Klaus

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand. — Malgorzata Szumowska

Beneath the clock was an enormous arrow, on which was printed: Change Here For Eastern Trains. But time had no arrow, not here. — Martin Amis

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. — William Shakespeare

The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. — Anthony Doerr

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. — Dalai Lama

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe. — Joshua Cohen

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many. — Doris Duke

I myself have always, since that day, felt it my duty to give alms to murderers in Eastern lands. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Sam Brewer enjoyed discussing Middle Eastern politics with Philby; Philby enjoyed sleeping with his wife. — Ben Macintyre

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip. — Thubten Yeshe

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. — Henry Kirke White

Europe had almost thought it had obtained Free & Unrestricted Access in/through middle eastern markets/lands for its globalized products. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself. — Allan Lokos

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway. — Deepak Chopra

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. — Elliott Erwitt

Germany was the centerpiece in Western and Eastern Europe in both wars. — Anonymous

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep. — John Milton

What dire consequences to humanity lie in the contemptuous ignoring of Eastern problems! — Okakura Kakuzo

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. — F. Sionil Jose

We'll find the dragon who set that bomb, and then I will tear off his wings and hang him from the eastern peak of Jade Mountain. — Tui T. Sutherland

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh? — Nicholas Sparks

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. — Anne Lamott

When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America. — Jim Pattison

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
That though the English are effete
They're quite impervious to heat. — Noel Coward

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. — Leslie Caron

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. — Patti LuPone

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. — Rudyard Kipling

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386). — Kenneth Pollack

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals — Ron Pickering

Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe. — Joe Biden

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe. — Niki Lauda

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff. — Paul Weller

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference. — Bill Walton

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs. — Frank Borman

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ... — William Jones

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. — W. Averell Harriman

I am The Dragon
And I have come! — Kehinde Sonola

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. — Douglas Coupland

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age. — Frederick Lenz

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. — Sarah Zettel

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women. — Kenneth Cain

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion. — Lee Strobel

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. — Frederick Douglass

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience. — Bill Bryson

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio. — Martti Ahtisaari

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff. — John Muckler

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well. — Tim Daly

God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home — Srinidhi.R

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural. — Garth Risk Hallberg

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. — Elliott Abrams

who have overtaken city halls across the country's eastern half. Although the standoff in — Anonymous

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. — Rajneesh

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. — Michael Mina

Christianity ... is an Eastern religion. — Tom Robbins

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. — P. J. O'Rourke

People from Eastern Islamic cultures generally assess truth through lines of authority, not individual reasoning. — Nabeel Qureshi

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. — Julia Bacha

If conditions along the eastern coast are right, you can actually see Iceland floating on the distant horizon. — Damjan Koncnik

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. — Zhuangzi

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire. — Charles G.D. Roberts

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia. — Roger Altman

Everything is defeated before love. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Education is neither eastern nor western. — Malala Yousafzai

My God you're sexy," Travis said, propping his head up with his hand. "The most beautiful woman at Eastern is my girlfriend. That's insanity. — Jamie McGuire

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect. — Gene Luen Yang

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe. — Ibrahim Rugova

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. — James Russell Lowell

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. — Hector Hugh Munro