Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson 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
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian… — Daniel Yergin 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
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
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,… — Johann Joachim Becher 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
...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
The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which… — Charles Krauthammer 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
Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is… — Michael Bloomberg 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
Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
“Criticize me all you wish,” he returned coolly, “but remember that you come to me because of the very actions you denounce.… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“The only person who is going to buy that monstrosity with all it's marble and pillars is a Persian. Why did they… — Heather McDonald Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
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