Quotes of: Persian Keyword

One grey hair appeared on my head I plucked it out with my hand. It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone - What will you do when my army comes after me?" -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

Your life is a sum of counted breaths. With each breath that passes a part of life is lost. That which gives life brings death every moment nearer, and your caravan is led by one who will not jest with you. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our err...

The Persian Letters

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

Zubin Mehta

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Juan Cole

Persian: My arm! Stelios: It's not yours, anymore.

300

Shereen: They think we're Arab. When did Persian become Arab?

Crash

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Moshe Katsav

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek...

Alexander the Great

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Jon Porter

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

Life

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

George McGovern

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb

Samantha Combs

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern.

One and a Half Wife

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

Conrad Black

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed th...

The Persian Expedition

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 into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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 it its life and bloom.

Rumer Godden

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

Justin Baldoni