Parsi Quotes

#1. I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

Zarin Mehta

#2. In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the Mohammedan of Seven Archangels, and our Christian religion has its Seven Spirits before the Throne.

Max Heindel

#3. I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

Zubin Mehta

#4. Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

Irrfan Khan

#5. Whether someone's a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Parsi, they are foremost a human being. And that entitles them to a morality and kindness.

Sulaiman Dawood

#6. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.

Nancy Pearl

#7. Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#10. I tell them I can handle my own stuff, but it's like a mark of pride or something. I'm surprised Blake doesn't just hoist me over his shoulder and try to carry me too!

Abby McDonald

#11. Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

Agatha Christie

#12. Unfortunately, every time the United States has tried to pursue a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians by beating back Iran and trying to isolate Iran, it has failed. And it has failed under much better circumstances.

Trita Parsi

#13. The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.

John C. Maxwell

#14. Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

David Harewood

#15. I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

Carol Burnett

#16. A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger.

Debasish Mridha

#17. NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.

Trita Parsi

#18. I don't like plain nails. I get sad.

Zooey Deschanel

#19. We are one evolutionary advancement away from world peace. All we need is the loss of jealousy, which is also the source of greed

Johnny Moscato

#20. From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.

Trita Parsi

#21. Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.

Trita Parsi

#22. There seems to be a consistency, in that people who have had access to the Iranian program - people who actually have had boots on the ground and have been able to investigate and inspect the program - have consistently been saying these things.

Trita Parsi

#23. If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

Gertrude Atherton