Quotes tagged ‘West’

“Columbus: You know there’s a place untouched by all this crap? Tallahassee: Back East, yeah? Columbus: Yeah. Yeah. You heard the same thing? Tallahassee: Out west, we hear it’s back East. Back east, they hear it’s out West. It’s all just nonsense. You know, you’re like a penguin on the North Pole wh…”

— Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Tallahassee, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition, religion, and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, amazon.com

“In a hundred years, when there’s a million jerks riding around Manhattan drunk in limos, the west will seem like a paradise.”

— Kathryn Borel, Sam Brenner, Brian Boyle, Roger The Alien, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“All my interests are still with the West—the modern West.”

— Buffalo Bill Cody, bartleby.com

“America has grown by expansion in a practical vacuum; the pioneers of the West had to overcome terrific natural obstacles, but negligible human resistance. The Russia of today had to conquer not only natural but human difficulties: she had to break up the rotten system of the Czars and to assimilate…”

— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org

“I must give some attention to the delicate question of religion, on which I have touched already. In my father's generation this question still was discussed with passion. Since then a sort of truce has existed in the countries of the West, while in the communist states of the East atheism has been…”

— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org

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

— Sean Taylor, inspiringquotes.us

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier…”

— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org