Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

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

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

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

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

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

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

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

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

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

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.

Western man is schizophrenic.

Western films don't do very well in India.

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

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

When in doubt, make a western.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

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

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

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

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

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

You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

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.

A woman's got to look her best at wedding and funerals" she quipped. "The bride will upstage her at a wedding; and the guest of honor at a funeral is in no condition to complain about her attire, but you never know who else you might meet! Grace Willow’s Last Minute Bride

Bad luck always comes in threes.

Becca watched Tucker bend at the waist. Mmm, mmm. He was sure built nice. From the top of his felt hat to the tips of his worn leather boots. Those leather chaps he'd just slung around his hips weren't too bad, either. He reached back to buckle the chap straps first around one jean-clad thigh, and then the other. And she'd thought the rodeo would be boring. Ha! She could watch Tucker do this all day. Buckle and unbuckle. Bend and stand. She let out a sign filled with pure contentment. "All right, Em. I'll admit it. Cowboys are hot." Next to her, Emma laughed. "Oh, yeah.

Boy oh boy, this man is trouble. He was slowly tearing down the wall she’d built around her heart, brick by brick. Could any man be this perfect? He must have some faults. Maybe he is a chauvinist pig…no, doesn’t seem like it. He is kind to animals and children, he is a fireman, he looks like sex on a stick. What could be wrong with him? Maybe he snores. Oh, wouldn’t I like to find out?

But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.

But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled... Nothing of this sort happened.

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as they improved these ordinary people's lives, we would win their 'hearts and minds' in the classic manifestation of a successful counter-insutgency operation. [...] Maybe our Western values world somebe instilled in these people. But in country where the average life expectancy was 42 and with the price of that life coming in contrasting cheap at $10 plus the bonus of martyrdom, or alien values might just as equally not be snapped up.

A corrupt corporate government employs blatantly corrupt scientists.

A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

A gentleman would leave.” He chuckled at that, his gaze locking with hers. “You and I are way past that, Annie.

Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.