Western Quotes

“Trace, a cattle rancher, and Hannah, a vegetarian, had nothing in common until the accident.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“Jerking her blindfold back into place, he yelled, “Giddy-up!”                                      “They only say that in cartoons, you moron.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“Buttercup?” Trace looked concerned. “You’ve named the cows?”
“Not all of them … yet. I’ll give them each a name when the perfect name pops up.”
He scratched his head. “You do know the fate of most beef cattle, right?” ”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“I always knew it was horses that would bring you back.”
― Lacy Chantell, Wild Heart

“I have come to the final judgment that I am not a man any longer. I am a figment, a concoction, an overblown invention born of low-grade whiskey and high-grade journalistic distortion; of street and saloon gossip and dime-novel bombast.”
― Richard Matheson, The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok

“The bells are so that we can hear when spirits are approaching. When you hear the bells at night, you know los fantasmas are about.”
― Jo Kaplan, When the Night Bells Ring

“When pioneers are pitted in the face of an antagonizing unknown, there is nothing worse than violence met against their fellow man. The unsurmountable danger comes not from the barrage of storms, nefarious creatures, or the torments of slippery sickness, but from what you hold dearest. Betrayal strikes at the heart, just as much as the soul. The loss of one’s humanity is an unjustifiable demise, the beginning of greater evils.”
― Trent Lindsey

“For en ussel fis du er”
― Louis Masterson, Kanes Colt

“That won’t be a problem, will it, Sheriff Collins?” Isaiah asked. He grinned, his attempt at a beard made him look like he had mange. “You keep your attack dog over there with your furry friend, and I’ll be happy to pay you with a good time.” He reached down with his free hand and wiggled his belt buckle suggestively. Ryan made a face at the suggestion.

“You bring a babysitter with you?” Millie ‘the attack dog’, asked.”
― Cal Black, No Land For Heroes

“Even after all these years, Fred’s words could knock the air from her. Millie grit her teeth, refusing to let him see just how deeply that had cut. Ryan wasn’t like that, she wasn’t like Fred at all.

“No masters,” Fred said. “No kings. Remember?”

“You don’t get to say that,” Millie snapped.”
― Cal Black, No Port in a Storm

“Emma could read a crowd. Upon entering a room, she could size up who was in charge, who were the important people to know, to impress. Who was low in the pecking order and not worth bothering her time with.

But oh, was it exhausting, always being on.”
― Sharon A. Mitchell, The Farmer Risks It All

“Everybody needs someone to believe in… Believing in the greatness of someone else inspires the greatness within us all to come forth. That’s why the world so desperately needs heroes; because by believing in heroes, it brings out the heroes in ourselves. Heroism makes people strive to be heroic as well, and it inspires them to be something greater than themselves. Such is the stuff that heroes are made of: heroes like Captain Hondo Stone... For while there might not have been any shining armor in the old west, there were knights back in those days… Even if they were black knights… And one of those knights was Captain Hondo Stone…”
― 2-Bru Krew, Gunfighter's Requiem

“The toxic western society. The governments know what the toxins are and they are covering it up. Exposure to toxins cause developmental problems in children and gender changing.”
― Steven Magee

“They have solutions to our problems, but they are not willing to help because that will cost them the things they are stealing from us.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Looking at myself in the mirror, my face still ugly from the beating I'd taken from Bohlen, I couldn't figure what she saw in me. But a man's life is much in his own hands, and what I was did not have to be the measure of what I would be.”
― Louis L'Amour, Hanging Woman Creek

“The lowest degree has a higher power than the highest degree. Why is that? I look at this way: the more and deeper that a person is inside a House, the more knowledge and power that they have over that House. But when the person is nearing the Door (the contract is coming into an end), so maybe this person is moving out,...the less power over that House that they will have.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The lowest degree has a higher power than the highest degree. Why is that? I look at this way: the more and deeper that a person is inside a House, the more knowledge and power that they have over that House. But when the person is nearing the door — say, their contract is coming to an end, moving out,...then, the less power over that House that they will have.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“A square between planets that are friends is nothing to worry about. It simply indicates that partners should be willing to sacrifice and compromise to make the relationship work. It's simply two best friends who are having a disagreement about something and a compromise is required.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Where there is justice, those who are morally bankrupt will end up bankrupt.”
― Kailin Gow

“We have experienced so many changes in such a short time that we’ve lost our common bonds.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to the timing of human activities). To watch a brown creeper as it inches up and down, peering into crevices and extracting bugs with its little dentist beak, is thus a way of catching a ride out of the grid and toward a time sense so different that it is barely imaginable to us. In Jennifer Ackerman's book The Bird Way, I learned that the male black manakin, a South American songbird, can do somersaults so fast that a human can see them only in slowed-down video. Some birdsong contains notes that are sung too quickly or are too high-pitched for us to hear. Veeries, a species related to the American robin, can predict hurricanes months in advance and adjust their migration route accordingly, and no one currently knows how. Birds own bodies and their movements are an entanglement of time and space: If a loon is in the higher latitudes, it's summer, and the bird is mostly black with a striking pattern of white stripes. If the same loon is near my studio in Oakland, it's winter, and the bird is almost unrecognizably different, a dull grayish brown.”
― Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

“What looks to Westerners like Asian deference, in other words, is actually a deeply felt concern for the sensibilities of others. As the psychologist Harris Bond observes, “It is only those from an explicit tradition who would label [the Asian] mode of discourse ‘selfeffacement.’ Within this indirect tradition it might be labeled ‘relationship honouring.’ ” And relationship honoring leads to social dynamics that can seem remarkable from a Western perspective. It’s because of relationship honoring, for example, that social anxiety disorder in Japan, known as taijin kyofusho, takes the form not of excessive worry about embarrassing oneself, as it does in the United States, but of embarrassing others.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“They are hiding the truth of what do they do behind closed doors. All their crime and bad actions are not reported but are put under carpet to protect their image, but they broadcast and write lies about us on what we do and hope that it is the truth. News media is no longer fair and accurate. It never reports on what happened. It is now Propaganda machine with all made up stories. They have bad motive and agenda in their reporting. People with bad intensions who want to control the narrative . Selling lies . Victims are made villains . Villains are made victims. Their offer goes to the highest bidder.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The Placidus system will tell you WHAT will happen, but can never tell you WHERE it will happen. This is the difference that makes the Whole Sign system more detailed.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“My woman is worth the world to me,” Boone replied. He hadn’t moved or lowered the weapon. “My brother, there, means plenty too. The last time you came around, I was flat on my back, near death, but I’m alive and well.”
― Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy, The Legacy of Boone Wilson

“no, the judgement of the law doesn’t weigh our actions in the end, in the end it’s a force you don’t understand. hellfire and eternal torment lie at all our doors. man can try and wash the stains of blood from his clothes, but they’ll never wash from his conscience, and they’ll shine red as the dawn before the gates of judgement.”
― Samuel Kinsella, The Exodus

“Now the world is materialistic; people follow materially successful people as their ideal. Because of this tendency, Western thoughts and ways of life have influenced our people. Our knowledge is tested on their parameters and discarded like rubbish. People are neglecting our medical knowledge and medicines. We can understand how much loss humankind is suffering from this negligence.”
― Ravi Ranjan Goswami, A New Concern

“Nous illustrons la soif de liberté, l'individualisme, la bougeotte et nous nous retrouvons aujourd'hui comme ces porteurs d'une industrie associé aux hamburgers, blue-jeans et Marlboro. D'un côté, il y a les éleveurs, les cow-boys professionnels, les Indiens, les bergers, qui luttent pour préserver leur mode de vie. De l'autre, les ranches pour 'dudes' et les magasins d'articles western pour touristes, qui prospèrent sur une image qu'ils contribuent à détruire. Nous faisons nos courses au Walmart du coin, le touriste ira compléter son déguisement de parfait cow-boy dans les magasins chic du centre-ville. Le tourisme ne peut pas sauver les cultures en voie de disparition. Au contraire, il les stérilise et les expédie dans les archives folkloriques.”
― Pascal Wick, Journal d'un berger nomade

“99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“You can't lock me up," the man protested. "I ain't broke no law in this town."
"That's all right," Glencannon answered him. "I ain't a lawman in this town.”
― Lee Hoffman, Return To Broken Crossing