But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon 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
“... as in the case of the old Parthian kings, who took Iranian names and governed in the Iranian language, but who… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and… — Bible 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
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
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national… — Saddam Hussein 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
[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
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
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
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,… — Hans Bethe 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
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
Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather… — Shusha Guppy 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
“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
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