I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of… — Emil Brunner 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
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
In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead… — William Sharp Copy Share Image
Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may… — Robert Redford 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
In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at… — Wesley Clark 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
I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career. — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only:… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The Chinese get over 40 percent of their oil from the Middle East through the Persian Gulf, but have you ever seen… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
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