Persian famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
-- Firoozeh Dumas

#Together #Persian #Form
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
-- George McGovern

#War #Campaigns #Persian
The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.
-- Lew Welch

#Ordinary #Persian #Worst
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#Persian #Aesthetic
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
-- Moshe Katsav

#Well Known #Manners #Persian
Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.
-- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

#Believe #Oil #Persian
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.
-- Mohammad Javad Zarif

#Freedom #Navigation #Persian

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.
Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.