Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?

Will was now all man. And all cowboy.

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western technology without taking in the Western ideas, which have been as a plague on our society. The result has been centuries of chaos.

You know what I want?” Drey asked. “Name it.” Hawk knew he would move heaven and earth if she asked him. She stood and started taking off her clothes. “I’m not sure where exactly this is headed, but I’m liking it,” he said.

Yōshoku is the Japanese take on Western foods; much of it was created during the Meiji period (1868-1912), when, after centuries of isolation, Japan began importing goods and ideas from the outside world, including food. Yōshoku dishes such as hambaagu (salisbury steak in brown sauce), curry rice, potato croquettes, and "spaghetti naporitan" are now much-loved comfort food. They're also so unlike the dishes that inspired them that they tend to be really hard for Westerners to appreciate.

You know, you really don't have to kill anyone over this. I'll get an annulment. It will be like never happened" His eyes came to her, briefly meeting her gaze before dropping to her mouth. "You'll have to make that a divorce instead" "No you don't understand. An annulment will be much easier to obtain" His gaze locked with hers now. Cassie became slightly breathless with the intensity of his stare. "Not after tonight, it won't." He said in his mesmerizing drawl. "Why?" She barely got the word out. "Because i'm in the mood to play husband" "You're what?" He started toward her. She was too stunned to move, so he was there and reaching for her before she had time to think about running. "We're having a wedding night," he said as he lifted her off her feet.--

You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race back over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country -- indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky -- provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like a claw in the gut.

You’re a real cowboy.” He laughed. “You’re just now realizing that?

You're so pretty, Elizabeth,... Why, I'd never have taken you for a spinster.

You’re staring,” she said as she cut her eyes to him. Clayton lifted one shoulder in a shrug. “I like what I see.

You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

Every team in the Western Conference has flaws.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

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?

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.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.

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

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

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

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

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

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.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

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