#stern

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ↗

— John Burroughs

#civilization #development #did #done #eighteen

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset. ↗

— Lee Child

#days #into #mysterious #off #over

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#because #bit #good #good guy #guy

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#asian #black #caucasian #country #eastern

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#bay #born #could #eastern #free

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#america #around #come #cyclical #different

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

#fortune #gentleman #large #lived #name

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#eastern #orthodox #russia

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#being #dawn #ever #fun #guns

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#case #comes #day #eastern #equal