#persian

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

Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#canadian #countries #earlier #efforts #fighting

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood. ↗

— Mary Renault

#the-persian-boy #death

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

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

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

— Jon Porter

#impressed #pakistan #persian #persian gulf #scope

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

#economy #eliminate #fuel #fuel economy #fuel economy standards

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry #rumi #imagination