Quotes About Western Influence

#1. I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

Ziad Doueiri

#2. The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

R.C. Sproul

#3. The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Albert Einstein

#4. I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

Samuel P. Huntington

#5. His eyes burned into mine, chasing away any remaining dark shadows, and then he added in a hoarse voice, I will love you for all eternity.

Sharon Ricklin Jones

#6. People are amazingly beautiful not because of how they look; they are beautiful because of who they are.

Debasish Mridha

#7. While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#8. Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ayn Rand

#9. Globalization by the way of McDonald's and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

Raquel Cepeda

#10. There's something
so great about this," she whispers.
About what?" I whisper back.
About this," she whispers.
About being outlaws.
It's just you and me - against the world.

Sonya Sones

#11. I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.

Martin Freeman

#12. The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

Karl Popper

#13. I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.

Rivers Cuomo

#14. All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead

#15. There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Frederick C. Beiser

#16. Victory; a matter of staying power.

Elbert Hubbard

#17. Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

Alexander Herzen

#18. In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Chen-Ning Yang