#wes

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#anywhere #blaming #circumstances #day #even

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. ↗

— William Bligh

#being #boisterous #cape #fogs #free

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King. ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#between #cultural #cultural war #get #just

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#man #me #montana #ranch #spending

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#modern #modern society #now #our #society

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#code #i #i think #important #symbolism

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#been #changed #east #labour #nothing

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#album #christmas #christmas album #couple #even

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture