Best Persian Sayings

72 Persian quotes by 65 unique authors

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage… — Shimon Peres
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance… — Plutarch
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased… — Simone de Beauvoir
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 the Persian carpet… — Tom Robbins
Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. — Steven Pressfield
You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky… — Ally Carter
Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the… — Paula McLain
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless… — Nick Harkaway
Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian… — Cassandra Clare
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together. — Neil MacGregor
Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get… — Moshe Safdie
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I… — Cyrus Broacha
In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran,… — Wesley Clark
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. — Jon Porter
I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian. — Juan Cole
Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. — Jan Schakowsky
You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: Iraq: incredible… — Bill Hicks
The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior… — Joseph Campbell
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we… — Fred Thompson
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw
Once You Go Persian, Theres No Other Version. — Laleh Javaheri
I'm kind of a mutt: My dad's Persian, my mother is Spanish, and I was born in Texas. Growing up, all I wanted to be… — Sarah Shahi

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