Western Quotes

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

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

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

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China's culture.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

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

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

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

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.