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“The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.”

Love Mean Love You Like You Verbs Persian I Don't Like You

Book:The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood

Source: The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood

“If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.”

“Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.”

War President Views Authority Commit Firm Troops Persian Gulf War American Troops Persian Gulf

Author:George J. Mitchell

“The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”

“I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots”

People Thinking Kicks Fancy Boots Indigenous Persian Squirrels

Author:Thom Yorke

“To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.”

Stills Lines Shapes Pages Subtle Manuscripts Persian Morocco

Book:In Morocco

Source: In Morocco

“Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.”

Said Fighting Laughing Sun Battle Extraordinary Block Native Shade Arrows Valor Persian Archer Undaunted Thespians Thermopylae

Author:Herodotus

“I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.”

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”

Inspirational House Speak Becoming Wise Man Once Said Persian

Author:Hafez

“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”

Needs Humans Moments Moving Life Is Water Levels Poet Return Ocean Infinite Metaphor Surface Human Life Bowls Floating Filling Acquisition Analogies Persian Containers Return To Me

Author:Bill Viola

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.”

Ifs May Seems Dies Evil Change Pleasure Class Poverty Strange Kings Insane Mortals Smoke Impulse Flames Poison Persian Chemist Vapor

Author:Johann Joachim Becher

“The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.”

Long School Earth Christ Atheism Civilization Familiar Greek Sentiments Testament Old Testament Egyptian Persian Pharisees

Author:Joseph McCabe

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

People Kind Magic Persian Magic Words

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“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.”

Two Lists Extras Supplies Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Persian Suppliers Persian Gulf

Author:Daniel Yergin

“In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.”

Men Journey Feet Effects Mountain Distance Ancient Speed Territory Traveler Persian

Book:The Places In Between

Source: The Places In Between

“Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.”

Together Form Thread Carpet Colorful Persian

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

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

Worst Ordinary Persian Ordinary Days

Author:Lew Welch

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

Wells Social Known Competition Manners Well Known Social Change Persian

Author:Moshe Katsav

“Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.”

Three Six Ancient Greek Ninety Eighty Persian Sanskrit

Author:Robert Johnson

“The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.”

Has Beens America Religious Written Land Arms Majority Train Israel Locals Agents Iran Could Have Been Advise Slogans Notable Grievance Persian God Is Great

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love”

Speak Language Greek Persian Turkish

Author:Rumi

“A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.”

Made Eye Heaven Black Persian Lemonade Black Eyes

Author:Charles Lamb

“MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.”

Fighting Evil Ancient Doctrine Opposition Good And Evil Warfare Gave Up Persian Incessant

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf.”

Action Goal President Support Military Policy Election Crisis Response Invasion President Bush Persian Deployment Kuwait Persian Gulf

Author:John F. Kerry

“Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.”

World Wells Country Economy Flow Iraq Oil Usa Other Countries Persian Countries Of The World Persian Gulf

Author:Dick Cheney

“...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.”

“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.”

Ifs Giving Looks Book Sides Carpet Two Sides Persian Stitches

Author:Rumer Godden

“Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”

“Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.”

“These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.”

Bed Moon Thread Pearls Persian Omar

Author:James Russell Lowell

“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

Rooms Dog Meals Household Carpet Dining Persian Butlers Poodles Dining Rooms

Author:Winston Churchill

“Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).”

Country Army Soldier Ships Canada Afghanistan Persian Persian Gulf

Author:George Galloway

“Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.”

Lines Watches Land Periods Ocean Areas Arise Indian Australia Syria Egypt Persian Libya Persian Gulf Life Line Ankara

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.”

Firsts Art Practice Painting Fine Late Aspect Core Genre Tension Teens Formal Fine Arts Illustration Persian Miniatures

Author:Shahzia Sikander

“We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.”

“There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.”

Trying Mean Has Beens Ignorance Tests Tested Testing Persian

Book:Caravan of Dreams

Source: Caravan of Dreams

“King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?' 'They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures,' Cyrus replied. 'Not my city or my treasures,' Croesus corrected him. 'Nothing there any longer belongs to me. It is you they are robbing.'”

Men Cities Kings Soldier Treasure Persian Robbing

Author:Diodorus Siculus

“I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.”

Source: The Names

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