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East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet


Rudyard Kipling

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East Mims was for blacks, west was for white, and never the twain should meet.
FRANK BEISLER Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand pres...
RUDYARD KIPLING Nome is as far west as west goes before it becomes east.
LUCKY SEVERSON Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that w...
GERALD GOULD If you want to go east, don't go west
RAMAKRISHNA For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the comin...
BIBLE And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and sh...
BIBLE She is a stranger to most Germans. Many East Germans think of her as a West German, while West Germa...
GERD LANGGUTH East of the sun and west of the moon.
EDITH PATTOU And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye sh...
BIBLE You can't go east and west at the same time,
JEAN CHAREST My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are the rebels of the West, ... And Malaysia is the rebel of the East.
FIDEL CASTRO We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA In novel after novel you have succeeded in making East and West meet, mixing Swift with the Arabian ...
JACK LANG East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY If we move from east to west, why couldn't it just be left on east?
LOUIS BENJAMIN The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education a...
MARTIN BUBER We've worked hard to improve east-west traffic.
BRYAN HOLLADAY What we're dealing with is a displacement of the illegal alien traffic to the east and west.
LUIS GARZA My angel, - his name is Freedom,
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid pe...
MARJANE SATRAPI If you want to park on the west side of downtown, come down on the west side. If you want to park ea...
MARIBETH SMITH In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
BIBLE I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
NELSON MANDELA Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We&#...
ANDREW ELDRITCH We face neither East nor West ; we face Forward
KWAME NKRUMAH Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west ...
GROUCHO MARX Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is w...
GROUCHO MARX It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
MAHATMA GANDHI Fixing the Middle East is only part of the problem. It is a West European problem, too.
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West ...
KIM DAE JUNG They want to retain their sovereignty over east and west, absolutely a nonstarter,
SAEB ERAKAT The East fell off. But the North, the South and the West are still there.
GUY LEBLANC Harper understands, but I think the West does need to understand the East better. And I think that t...
MIKE HARRIS The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to C...
ERIC LEFKOFSKY Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asi...
HERMANN HESSE A lot of people in the East don't know those guys because they have been in the West their whole car...
WAYNE PRIMEAU In the West, it is about integrating, giving them better access to the opportunities in the East.
JULIAN MORRIS The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
WANG LEEHOM I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If you want to go east, don't go west.
RAMAKRISHNA Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East...
A. B. YEHOSHUA The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have e...
ABDUS SALAM If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is...
RUDYARD KIPLING We would like to expand our presence to other points of the compass east and west.
JEFF MEYER (Thrift stores) tend to do better on the East Side than the West.
RENEE THOMAS In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
MARJANE SATRAPI It will help more evenly distribute the east-west traffic in that area.
CRAIG BRYSON We dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. Well, art is art, isnt it? Still, on t...
GROUCHO MARX My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Sid...
GREGORY CORSO Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.
And never the twain shall meet.
LAINI TAYLOR Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
PAUL WALKER This just rams home how much the Western world is dependent upon the 'Wild West' for its energy supp...
IAN HENDERSON Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea...
JARED DIAMOND There was no south, there was no north, no east and no west-just the 11 apostles.
PAUL J. F. LUSAKA The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and...
KLAUS SCHWAB While the established ruling systems in the Middle East seem to be coming to an end, the spurious br...
MUHAMMED HAIDER Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere bec...
GORE VIDAL For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, We...
BIG SEAN Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operat...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
BIBLE For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
BIBLE Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
LORD BYRON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We...
SAM SIMON If they want peace, they must know that what is happening in the Gaza Strip must happen in the West ...
SAEB ERAKAT I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID To the west we have the Calexico port of entry, to the east Nogales. Both of these ports of entry ha...
MICHAEL FREEMAN I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
RUMI This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the w...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own mi...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own mi...
BUDDHA If you look at the demographic breakdown where sales occur, they are much heavier along the east and...
JAMES RICCI He has strived to achieve fame and success. He is more than a director. He has successfully blended ...
LEE KANG Who is the strongest, who is the best, who holds the aces, the East or the West. This is the crap ou...
ROGER WATERS Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
BENEDICT WONG The south-west is still much better value than the south-east, but there isn't so much of a differen...
GUY SHERRATT But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody do...
BUBBA SPARXXX Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
ROBERTO BOLAñO It's important that all the east-west corridors that get away from the coast have clear access.
FRED ELLIOTT I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. Yo...
RAVI ZACHARIAS In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on...
NEIL GAIMAN I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
JACK KEROUAC In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide gu...
SANTOSH KALWAR But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody do...
BUBBA SPARXXX The farther west he went the more he was convinced that the wise men came from the east.
HORACE RUSSELL The farther west he went the more he was convinced that the wise men came from the east
HORACE RUSSELL We have widespread damage on the west coast, on the east coast, in the center of the state and in th...
MIKE DELORENZO 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south tw...
BIBLE The response on the east coast and in the mid-west has been tremendous. We're expecting more of the ...
BAKARI KITWANA The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the w...
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RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any...
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child.
RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und...
RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long.
RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
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