East Quotes

• Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Easter
  • East
  • Crimson

• If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Effort
  • Security
  • Achieve

• I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Tradition
  • Hippie
  • Berlin

• Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Bridge
  • West
  • Poland

• I have come East to find what the public likes.

  

  Sessue Hayakawa
  • Public
  • East

• Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Meet
  • West
  • East

• When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Mind
  • Coast
  • Midwest

• To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

  

  Charles Baudouin
  • Trying
  • Doubt
  • Ability

• We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

  

  George Sarton
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Inspired

• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Country
  • Chance
  • Born

• After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Moved
  • East
  • Waking

• What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries; one of them is Saudi Arabia. We didn't know how to deal with it. And the problem spread all over the world.

  

  Mohammad bin Salman
  • Different
  • Revolution
  • Countries

• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • West
  • South

• Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • West
  • East

• When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Growing
  • Said
  • Aunt

• I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • World
  • Kind
  • Audience

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