Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

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

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

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

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

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

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

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

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

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 was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

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

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

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

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

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

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

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

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

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want to be part of Russia," and that didn't happen. And they've been paying, actually, I think quite a high price for it, both in the ongoing war in Ukraine - which is I think increasingly unpopular in Russia - and also in the Western sanctions, and in general, the separation from the West that was caused by that.

Of course, western is my native music.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

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

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

When in doubt, make a western.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.

A tree.” She spotted one. It was hidden behind a much larger tree, its limbs misshapen in its attempt to fight for even a little sunlight in the shadow. “Dana has this tradition of giving a sad-looking tree the honor of being a Christmas tree.” She walked over to the small, nearly hidden tree. “I like this one. “It’s…” He laughed. “Ugly?” “No, it’s beautiful because it’s had a hard life. It’s struggled to survive against all odds and would keep doing that without much hope. But it has a chance to be something special.