Occidentals Quotes & Sayings

There was a time when I used to walk into the room and own it, or at least believe in what I was offering, but I hadn't felt that confidence in a long time. — Karina Halle

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. — Dean Koontz

Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny
The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly
Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light — Anonymous

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon. — Jane Goodall

The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life. — Gunnar Myrdal

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries. — Fran Lebowitz

What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range. — Morrissey

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty. — Robert Anton Wilson

The Bhagavad Gita
that ancient Indian Yogic text
says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace. — Ludwig Quidde