Quotes About Persian War

#1. There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over the body to conceal it

Slavoj Zizek

#2. As he explained to his officers and men, the war against Persia could not be finished until the shah, as the Persians called their king, was mat, or finished. The endgame had to be shah mat, a Persian phrase that would evolve in time into checkmate.

Philip Freeman

#3. Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Albrecht Durer

#4. Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there.

Paul Cellucci

#5. Because maybe Watonka was only ever supposed to be a temporary stopover, and maybe I will chase that train over the hill, and maybe we're all destined to leave this place, for sure, for real, together or alone. But for right now, we're here.

Sarah Ockler

#6. If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

Robert Cailliau

#7. But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.

Paul Cellucci

#8. It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.

Sylvia Plath

#9. The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait ...

George H. W. Bush

#10. I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

George McGovern

#11. What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

Carl Jung

#12. Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

Tom Brokaw

#13. Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

Colman McCarthy

#14. You know, it really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Donald J. Trump

#15. He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

Duke Snider

#16. We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

Fred Thompson

#17. You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons." How do you know that? "Uh, well ... we looked at the receipts."

Bill Hicks

#18. The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

Ciro Guerra

#19. Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

George J. Mitchell

#20. I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

George McGovern

#21. When a woman is absorbed with God's glory, she will interpret her life according to His Truth

Susan Hunt

#22. There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Bram Stoker

#23. Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.

Whitney Cummings

#24. If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. The reason we so often fail in moving our fellowmen is that we try to win them without first getting power with God. Jesus was in communion with His Father, and so He could be assured that His prayers were heard. We

D.L. Moody

#25. female soldiers n.
males with female features

During the war in the Persian Gulf, the Saudi government rejected the idea of female soldiers coming to their defense (women make up one-tenth of the U.S. forces), so it designated the women soldiers "males with female features.

William D. Lutz

#26. I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.

Juan Antonio Bayona