Top 682 Persian Gulf Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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.

People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.

I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

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.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.

The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That's good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

Persian cuisine is, above all, about balance - of tastes and flavors, textures and temperatures. In every meal, even on every plate, you'll find both sweet and sour, soft and crunchy, cooked and raw, hot and cold.

I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.

Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

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.

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

Russia has always been very careful to try to balance the interest of the Gulf states and Iran off against each other.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

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.

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.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.

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.