#persia

You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin ↗

— Rumi

#iran #persian-poetry #rumi #rumi-poetry #originality

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

— Juan Cole

#lot #persian #quite #read #speak

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 were ambiguous as to what we would do. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#conflict #country #gulf #gulf war #korean

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 in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. ↗

— Al Gore

#borrowing #burn #buy #change #china

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 of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

#dreaded #gospel #greatly #had #having

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appeared #century #china #christianity #earth

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

#everybody #fell #god #greatest #had

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#because #die #hindus #itself #just

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

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#magic #people #persian #word