East Quotes

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. (Golda Meir)
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. View quote
James Russell Lowell
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. View quote
John Updike
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa. View quote
Wesley Clark
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. View quote
O. Henry
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! View quote
Golda Meir
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity. View quote
Vitruvius
If you want to go east, don't go west. View quote
Ramakrishna
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or dangers of weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Hosni Mubarak
Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. View quote
William Blake
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. View quote
Dan Quayle
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. View quote
Christopher Columbus
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. View quote
Barack Obama
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. View quote
Martin Buber
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. (Vitruvius)
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. View quote
Ken Follett