#persian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Rumi

#poetry #rumi #rumi-poetry #beauty