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"For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle east in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle east as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." »George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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"The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word." »Kedar Joshi
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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." »Sir Edward Appleton
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"Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language." »Henry David Thoreau
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language." »Cicero
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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"I have become a queer mixture of the east and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." »James Russell Lowell
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"If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question." »Victor Hugo
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"But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare
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"There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." »James Russell Lowell
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"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
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"West is too materialist; east is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We know that this mad dog of the Middle east has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle east that has no oil" »Golda Meir
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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." »Nelson Mandela
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"Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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"You can't make war in the Middle east without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining east and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts." »Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
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"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle east peace initiative)" »Shimon Peres
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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"The sun rises from the two places: From the east and also from where the Science rises!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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