Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
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
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. — Helen Keller 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
A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf… — Al Gore 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
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I like that I can write my name in Persian, and it's a small unit, like a graphical unit. I feel the… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and… — Hafez Nazeri 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 Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens 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
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing… — Hooman Majd 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
You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should… — Ally Carter 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
“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
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