Persian Poets Quotes

#1. 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.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#2. 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.

Abbas Kiarostami

#3. I love you too, Stark.

P.C. Cast

#4. Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there ... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.

Jenna Morasca

#5. So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

#6. It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

John Ruskin

#7. If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

Grimes

#8. In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

Constance Baker Motley

#9. I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

Twyla Tharp

#10. The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylor

#11. We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Roald Dahl

#12. I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

Alan Brazil

#13. I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

Ralph Ellison