Quotes about Persian

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You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dust — Jalaluddin Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
Woman is the light of God. — Jalaluddin Rumi
Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and — Omar Khayyám
Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty. — Jalaluddin Rumi
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 — Omar Khayyám
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Night along with them fr — Omar Khayyám, The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,t — Jalaluddin Rumi
you’re already naked in this worldin this timein this lifebeacause your next loveyour next hungeryou next laughterand ev — Baharak Sedigh
...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, — John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Farsi Couplet:Mun tu shudam tu mun shudi,mun tun shudam tu jaan shudiTaakas na guyad baad azeen, mun deegaram tu deegari — Amir Khusrau, The Writings Of Amir Khusrau :700 years after the prophet : a 13th-14th century legend of Indian-sub-continent
Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to — Noam Chomsky
Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance.Ugly is not the absence of beauty — Kamand Kojouri
In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again,James had risked everything for her — William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness — Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Even women deeply committed to the emancipatory promises of modernity were alarmed by the "inappropriateness" of unrelat — Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
A unified Iran is constituted not only politically but also affectively. Liberty and constitutional rule bring "Affectio — Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
Zoe stopped one last time in front of the mirror, adjusting her new American dress. She didn’t see the dress, however. S — Michael Benzehabe
Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks — Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Ph — Joseph McCabe, The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels