Quotes About Going Out West

#1. I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

Natasha Lyonne

#2. When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Christine Quinn

#3. Someday I'm going to throw you across his back and ride off west with you ... and you'll learn to make a coffee in a tin pot over a fire, and we'll sleep underneath a wagon and look out at the stars-

Lisa Kleypas

#4. What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

Bruce Babbitt

#5. Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#6. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.

Krista Tippett

#7. The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

Eric Hoffer

#8. Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Morris West

#9. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

Lindy West

#10. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.

L. Frank Baum

#11. The soul of a man such as you can never leave the west.

Stephen King

#12. The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#13. You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

Cornel West

#14. You have me under your spell.

With all the secrets you tell.

I can't make it stop.

Please don't let it stop.

You have me under your spell.

If you knew me as well,

You would make it stop.

I can't let it stop.

Kasie West

#15. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

#16. Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Kanye West

#17. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

Kanye West

#18. The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

Vita Sackville-West

#19. I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.

Garrett Atkins

#20. The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

Michael Schur

#21. We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

Konosuke Matsushita

#22. In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

Wang Shi

#23. I love you, Lyrik West. And when I walk out that door, I promise you, it's going to hurt."
"But you are worth all the pain.

A.L. Jackson

#24. Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

Sarah West

#25. Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

Shane West

#26. In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

Matthew Reilly

#27. I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you and I don't know how to make you feel better. I'm in love with you and I shouldn't be. I'm in love with you and once you figure out who I am, you're not going to love me. I'm in love with you and I seem to fuck up the ones who love me back.

Katie McGarry

#28. People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.

Kanye West

#29. No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

Allen West

#30. I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

Kanye West

#31. I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors ... It's incredibly romantic.

Brooke Burke

#32. There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.

Tom Colicchio

#33. Are we going to New Orleans?"
"No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia."
"I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

Richelle Mead

#34. There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west.

Marco Roth

#35. Lorrie, we're going to be together tonight. And tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that. We're going to work things out together.

Priscilla West

#36. We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

Morris L. West

#37. There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.

Michael Lee West

#38. Vancouver is the suicide capital of the country. You keep going west until you run out. You come to the edge. Then you fall off.

Margaret Atwood

#39. It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Kanye West

#40. Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#41. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Adeline Yen Mah

#42. I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

Kanye West

#43. I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

Alan Dershowitz

#44. Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Cornel West

#45. One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West

#46. The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

Benazir Bhutto

#47. It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

Aly Khan

#48. I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#49. A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

Davy Crockett

#50. Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

Lilia Shevtsova

#51. I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

Morris L. West

#52. As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all of us.

Sarah Vowell

#53. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

Kanye West

#54. Why everything that's supposed to be bad
Make me feel so good?

Kanye West

#55. Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Arthur Hertzberg

#56. The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

Ibn Warraq

#57. He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

#58. At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

Elliott Abrams

#59. He loves to be the center of attention. I hate it. He is the king of the school. I do not want to be the queen. I

Kasie West

#60. two people could keep a secret, as long as one of them was dead.

Kyle West

#61. I want to dress like a child as much as possible.

Kanye West

#62. Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.

Phar West Nagle

#63. By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

Michael Stipe

#64. Men are not realists - only women are.

Mae West

#65. God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

#66. It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

Martin Brodeur

#67. I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Allen West

#68. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Mae West

#69. When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west
that cloud field of the sky
to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

Zora Neale Hurston

#70. Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Michelle Sagara West

#71. The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

Ibn Warraq

#72. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

Andrew Ramer

#73. [I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

Kanye West

#74. I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.

Mae West

#75. Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are ...

John Denver

#76. Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus

Kanye West

#77. When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#78. He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

Kurt Vonnegut