“My whole being is a dark chant that will carry you perpetuating you to the dawn of eternal growths and blossomings in… — Forugh Farrokhzad Copy Share Image
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. — Hafez Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What strange and unexpected event has not occurred in our time? The life we have lived is no ordinary human one, but we were… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job. — Hafez Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the… — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in)… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of… — Mary McFadden Copy Share Image
In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. — Democritus 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
By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image