Persian Quotes
72 Persian quotes by 65 unique authors
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The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love
— Rumi
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
— Charles Lamb
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.…
— John F. Kerry
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Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world…
— Dick Cheney
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...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in…
— Michael Klare
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If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives…
— Rumer Godden
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Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to…
— Al Gore
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Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and…
— Hillary Clinton
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These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald…
— James Russell Lowell
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The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet…
— Winston Churchill
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Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf),
— George Galloway
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Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to…
— Edgar Cayce
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Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of…
— Shahzia Sikander
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We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,…
— Max Nordau
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is…
— Idries Shah
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King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men…
— Diodorus Siculus
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I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight…
— Don DeLillo
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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
— Horace
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As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it…
— Al Gore
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
— Helen Keller
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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
— George McGovern
Who Wrote These Persian Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 72 Persian Quotes, led by these top contributors: