Quotes for All
In far Eastern Russia, there’s just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there’s just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no … Read more
I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There’s not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don’t use the word cancer because they don’t get diagnosed. They just die. Eve Ensler
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked … Read more
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I’ve drawn a hole in the … Read more
I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. Emir Kusturica
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They’re extraordinarily good. Elliott Erwitt
A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a … Read more
Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it’s an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold. Eli Roth
When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose. Edward Snowden
I didn’t ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I’ve always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on … Read more