Western Quotes

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.