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The East
«On the third Tuesday of every September, floodgates are opened in a tall building on the East River in New York and a Niagara of rhetoric gushes forth for three months.»
Author: Anthony Parsons
| Keywords:
East River, gushed, gushes, Niagara, September, The East, the East River
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
Author: Frances Burnett
| About:
Dawn,
Immortality,
Moments,
Time
| Keywords:
cry out, Far East, flush, flushed, flushes, goes out, majesty, marvelous, or so, solemn, The East, the pale, The Rising, The Strange, throws, unchanging, watches
«I do envision championship basketball and when you talk about championship basketball, you talk about a good defensive team, you talk about a good offensive team and you talk about a team that really has its act together once they step on the floor. Our goal is to dominate the east and we must continue to dominate the east so that we can have another return to the NBA Finals. And I think mentally we have to become a tougher basketball team. I think mental toughness is going to be the thing that makes us champions.»
Author: Isiah Thomas
(Basketball Player, Coach)
| Keywords:
basketball, basketball team, Champions, championship, championships, defensive team, dominate, East, envision, envisioned, envisioning, finals, floor, NBA, offensive, Return to, step on, The Championship, The East, tougher, toughness
«There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can?t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.»
Author: Kabir
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
covers, holy book, holy water, ivory, kabir, pools, sculpted, sculpting, sideways, swimming, swimming pool, The East
«There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...there's a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!»
«I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.»
Author: Trygve Lie
| Keywords:
bag, disappointments, East, East River, headaches, pack, The East, the East River, The Troubles
«I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
East, East Is East, mixture, mixtures, nowhere, out of place, queer, queerer, queerest, The East, the West, West
«Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, / Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: / Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Ancient times, East End, Far East, old country, purposed, ravenous, The East
«It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
against, come, East, East Is East, East of, external, externals, foolish, from, from the, guard, inner, inner world, leave, leave out, left most, mind, misfortunes, of one mind, one, One World, on guard, on leave, on your guard, originate, originate in, originating, own, take leave, therefore, they, The East, the West, think, uncontrolled, West, within, world, wrong, wronging
«Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
East, North, North and South, North West, South, South West, The East, the North, the West, To South
