#west

There's a war on coal coming from this administration, and Congress seems to be going with it. Coal is West Virginia. It's the backbone of our budgets. To have this war on coal is destructive to our ability to maintain economic viability in the state. ↗

— David McKinley

#administration #backbone #budgets #coal #coming

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#began #belgium #counteract #east #efforts

The West is now closed. ↗

— Frederick Jackson Turner

#now #west

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#compose #disposition #diversity #extreme #far

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it ↗

— Judith McNaught

#foolishness #sad #westmoreland #dreams

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em. ↗

— Luke Perry

#i #knew #like #westerns

The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream." --Julia Gast in Red Fox Woman ↗

— Judy Ann Davis

#western #dreams

In the West, you take people at their word. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#take #their #west #word #you

Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#challenge #kiara-westford #resistance

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#buddhism #eastern-religion #indochina #monotheism #rebirth-buddhism