#persian

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#bulk #come #could #extra #gulf

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

— George McGovern

#campaign #gulf #i #opposition #persian

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#life #persian-poetry #poetry #life

Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#rubiayat #wisdom #life

you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter and even your next tear may never come ↗

— Baharak Sedigh

#love #persian-poetry #poetry #life

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

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

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

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#magic #people #persian #word

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 of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry #rumi #rumi-poetry #beauty