Top 682 Persian Gulf Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
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.
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
The word 'America' probably didn't appear in the Persian language until the end of the 18th century - but then with a documented past stretching back at least 5,000 years, the east had riches of its own.
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
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.
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.
The working conditions of Indian labourers in the Gulf countries are notoriously abusive.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
There seemed a gulf impassable between them.
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.
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.
Like all Iranian kids, I grew up feeling strongly that the best part of dinner was tahdig, the crisp, golden crust that forms at the bottom of every pot of Persian rice - and sometimes other dishes, too.
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.
I know I'm different. Even when I think about an acting career, there are so many limited roles to begin with. I have the ability to be Spanish, Indian, Italian, black, Persian. What roles do I see that compliment that?
I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.
Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
If I waited to write only for a Persian lesbian, I'd still be waiting. But I can write for straight white men because those are the jobs.
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.
In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.