West Quotes

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.

At the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example a cross between pippi longstocking and the wicked witch of the west would obviously give us marcie millar