Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians… — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
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
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of… — Joseph Campbell 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
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is… — Mohammad Javad Zarif 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
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola 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
Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language. — Abbas Kiarostami 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
Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the… — Edgar Cayce 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
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, 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
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
I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
In fact, my mom would have gone to the Persian Gulf War had she not been pregnant with me. — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
