Top 30 Farah Diba Quotes
#1. I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.
Farah Diba
#2. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
Sara Gruen
#3. There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
Farah Diba
#4. I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
Farah Diba
#5. Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
Farah Diba
#6. You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
Farah Diba
#7. I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.
Farah Diba
#8. I don't like doing interviews. I'm not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.
Jared Leto
#9. I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
Jackie Chan
#10. I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.
Farah Diba
#11. Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time.
Craig Ferguson
#12. I read one study that indicated when a couple has been together for approximately three hundred hours, even most of those who are trying to be moral will do things they didn't intend originally. They may not even realize that is where the relationship is headed until it happens.
James C. Dobson
#13. Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#14. For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
Lin Yutang
#15. For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.
Nick Kroll
#16. Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made. me!! ;)
Paulo Coelho
#17. I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.
Farah Diba
#18. Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
Nicolas Chamfort
#19. Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.
Farah Diba
#20. For Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
William Barclay
#21. Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.
Farah Diba
#22. Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.
Farah Diba
#23. In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.
Farah Diba
#24. Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.
Helen Fisher
#25. It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.
Farah Diba
#26. Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
Farah Diba
#27. But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
Paul Engle
#28. There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
Farah Diba
#29. I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.
Dave Smalley
