Capotortos East Quotes

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia. ~ Lee H. Hamilton

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east ... ~ Aldous Huxley

The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess. ~ Donald Trump

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. ~ Harry Mathews

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service. ~ Garrison Keillor

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live. ~ Tehyi Hsieh

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed. ~ Richard Engel

Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion. ~ Piet Hein Wokke

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. ~ Chris Matthews

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there. ~ Baron Vaughn

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side. ~ Moby

The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

You can't go east and west at the same time. ~ Jean Charest

Steve Laury smokes playing octaves. ~ Nathan East

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality. ~ Ehud Olmert

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. ~ Dan Quayle

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. ~ Mohammed Morsi

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ. ~ Thomas Merton

Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated. ~ Ali Khamenei

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. ~ Gautama Buddha

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that. ~ Bill Kurtis

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. ~ Golda Meir

No matter where you go in East Texas, 'Deep' East Texas is always about twenty miles further in than wherever you are. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine. ~ Henry Rosovsky

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. ~ Zaha Hadid

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London ~ George W. Bush

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. ~ Joseph Conrad

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches. ~ Ric Keller

Unlike right and left, East remains East no matter which way you're facing. ~ Mark Newham

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me. ~ Ursula Burns

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. ~ Meir Kahane

East Africa. Had Lance been deliberately misleading when he said West instead of East? Miss ~ Agatha Christie

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati
those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues. ~ Edward Abbey

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers. ~ Golda Meir

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. ~ Russ Carnahan

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. ~ Diane Lane

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy. ~ John Prescott

political and economic development among civilizations are clearly rooted in their different cultures. East Asian economic success has its source in East Asian culture, as do the difficulties East Asian societies have had in achieving stable democratic political systems. Islamic ~ Samuel P. Huntington

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks. ~ Ville Valo

Don't leave your life a blank page. Make each word count and leave behind something worth reading. ~ Mae East

Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London. ~ Eva Green

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East. ~ Jeff Goodell

In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany. ~ Christian Schwochow

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse. ~ Bret Stephens

East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~ Orhan Pamuk

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East. ~ Edward Lear

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power. ~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south. ~ William Shakespeare

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. ~ Paul Gillmor

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations. ~ Alcee Hastings

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. ~ O. Henry

Son of Poseidon? East asked. I nodded. Took a dip in the Styx? Hudson asked. Yep. They made digusted sounds. Well that's perfect East said. Now how do we kille him? ~ Rick Riordan

We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil. ~ Midge Decter

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East ... ~ Barack Obama

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. ~ Rudyard Kipling

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. ~ Jimmy Wales

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. ~ Aneurin Bevan

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada. ~ Martha MacIsaac

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. ~ Marc Maron

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. ~ Shimon Peres

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away. ~ Rick Riordan

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. ~ Timothy Garton Ash

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. ~ Christopher Hitchens

These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the Middle East. They're generally shades of gray. But that doesn't translate well on television. It was too complicated. Too remote. ~ Richard Engel

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil. ~ T. Boone Pickens

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority. ~ Grace Paley

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence. ~ Darrell Issa

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region. ~ Orrin Hatch

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. ~ James Buchan

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day. ~ Kristi Noem

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. ~ Robert Baer

On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions. ~ Conan O'Brien

I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo. ~ Ann Coulter

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns. ~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande ... there's a very long list. ~ Fleur East

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E. ~ Nadia Ali

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing. ~ Jay Leno

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011. ~ John F. Kerry

The ISIS situation is not just "their problem to deal with in the Middle East," it's OUR PROBLEM because it involves people Jesus died for. ~ Perry Noble

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories. ~ Sean Taylor

I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs. ~ Fleur East

Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone. ~ Nathan East

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east. ~ Thomas Griffith

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East. ~ Ahmed Zewail

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East. ~ Ann Romney

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. ~ Adam Michnik

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East. ~ Orderic Vitalis

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized. ~ Herman Melville

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. ~ Andy Hargreaves

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets! ~ Cathy East Dubowski

Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty? ~ Chris Christie

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. ~ John Major

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people. ~ Frank Carson

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! ~ Rudyard Kipling

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics. ~ Sam Harris

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better. ~ Wayne Rogers