As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a… — Shusha Guppy Copy Share Image
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“That is a beautiful mysticism - it is a - ' 'Please not to call it by any name,' said Dorothea, putting… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes.… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The two of us with our scrappy motor and no idea what was going to happen next, a Persian version of the… — Lois Pryce Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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![“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.” quote by Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/568/winston-churchill-95_butlers_the-poodle-rufus-ate-in-the-dining-room_2601153.jpg)
![“King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?' 'They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures,' Cyrus replied. 'Not my city or my treasures,'…” quote by Diodorus Siculus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f19/diodorus-siculus-47079_cities_king-croesus-watching-persian-soldiers-s_387161.png)
