Occidente Oriente Quotes & Sayings

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy. — Walter Millis

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts. — Bikram Choudhury

Start each day as a great adventure. — Debasish Mridha

To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit. — Henry David Thoreau

Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you." — Constance Briscoe

The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species. — Wilfred Trotter

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old. — Paulo Coelho

this preoccupation with order, control, — Richard Rohr

Something wrong?" Will asked.
"This," Gabriel said. He held up a broadsheet newspaper called the Star. "It's awful."
"I agree," Will said. "Those halfpenny rags are terrible. But you seem to be more upset about them than is appropriate. — Cassandra Clare