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

When I'm away from you I am lost.
But when I'm with you, I am lost in you. — Eliza Freed

Even through her coat, he could feel the curve of her arm, making him aware of their differences.
Man and woman.
Hard and soft. — Debra Holland

Clay Blaisdell Western — Stephen King

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization! — Bill Walton

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. — Carl Jung

There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse. — Missy Lyons

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from. — John Wayne

Shut it, right there, or I'll give you a hole that won't shut." He pointed the Colt at Clinton, clicking back the hammer. — C.G. Faulkner

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. — Damian Lewis

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops. — John Buford

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English. — Pankaj Mishra

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore. — Mark Ruffalo

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. — Leland Ryken

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. — Jensen Ackles

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in. — Ben Mendelsohn

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. — Margaret J. Wheatley

I want to do a Western so bad because I want to ride horses and act. Those are two of my favorite things in the world to do. I want to do that. — Emily Rose

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing. — Abigail Washburn

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it. — Heather Blanton

What would it hurt to have one cup of coffee with him? — B. J. Daniels

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion. — Robert H. Knight

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. — Camille Paglia

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players. — Inbee Park

The difficulty in shooting a gun has nothing to do with pulling the trigger. — A.B. Keuser

our confidence is not in the solidity of Western culture or the basic goodness of modern democracy. Our confidence is in Jesus and him alone. — N. T. Wright

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. — John Le Carre

Darlin', old don't mean dead. — Carolyn Brown

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise. — Anjem Choudary

But wasn't time for what was. Was time to settle up the future. — J.D. Jordan

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man. — Liliana Shelbrook

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. — Thomas Day

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. — Erich Maria Remarque

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them. — Heath Ledger

The world will be saved by the western woman" - The Dalai Lama — Dalai Lama XIV

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western. — Richard Jenkins

The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort. — Billy Graham

For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire. — Susan McClary

The Western hero, subdued by kisses and the mere tease of rope. — Rachel Kramer Bussel

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. — Aharon Appelfeld

One cowboy is never enough. — Vanessa Vale

Mia is the wind - the hot, dry western wind. And I am gravity. — Sophie Hardcastle

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it — Douglas Adams

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made. — Jon Favreau

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. — Arthur Erickson

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse. — Franco Nero

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. — Nicholas D. Kristof

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man. — Michel Houellebecq

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. — Walter Hill

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. — Martin Luther King Jr.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good. — Anatoly Chubais

Sunlight streamed through the room, clinging to him like it wanted him as much as she did. — Cindi Madsen

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. — Herman E. Daly

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. — Natan Sharansky

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God. — Whittaker Chambers

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. — Alan Brien

Going to open a quaint little bookshop and have a niche section called "Men's Interests" where we shelve the Western Cannon. — Alana Massey

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless. — B. J. Daniels

In western medicine, sunshine is recommended for all kinds of diseases, and according to the Vedas a diseased man should worship the sun for cure. — Anonymous

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. — George Burns

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? — Pierre Schaeffer

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. — Randy Alcorn

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union. — Ernest Hemingway,

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country. — W. Edwards Deming

We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality. — Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini

Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe. — Francis Fukuyama

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. — Elliott Abrams

His gaze locked with hers. "I didn't know what my life was missing until I met you. — B. J. Daniels

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms. — Daniel Pinchbeck

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. — Naguib Mahfouz

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer. — Frederick Lenz

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology. — Terence McKenna

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time. — Poe Ballantine

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery. — Dinesh D'Souza

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. — Naomi Wolf

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news. — Susan Mallery

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism — Nathan Rosenberg

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.' — Nirmalya Kumar

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom. — Shakti Gawain

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. — Daniel Goleman

The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying? — J.D. Jordan

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it. — Deborah King

His heart found something that it doesn't want to live without, he whispered. — Carolyn Brown

western paintings did not occur. — James A. Michener

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it. — James Hilton

Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan. — J.D. Jordan

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name. — Liu Dan

You hardly seem the type who needs to resort to covert tactics to cop a feel. — Victoria Vane

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world. — Nhat Hanh