Quotes with south-west

Quotes 181 till 200 of 213.

  • Jessamyn West To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Mae West Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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  • Robert South Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Mae West Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Germaine Greer We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Anita Diamant Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Mae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Agnes Smedley When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Mae West When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Ban Ki-moon When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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