Reza Shah Pahlavi Quotes

#1. Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#3. Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people ... is a fertile source of suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Growing old can mean more than slowing down; it can be a time of truly growing down and incarnating further. Because the inner genius that tries to incarnate through us will keep calling for us to awaken further until we come to the end of our life adventure.

Michael Meade

#5. I LOVE YOU SHAHAN SHAH MOHAMADREZA GOD BLESSE YOU

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#6. You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Jerry West

#8. Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.

Herman Melville

#9. There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Eric Zorn

#10. Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#11. Jesus was humble when He walked this earth. He had all power, yet used all meekness.

Monica Johnson

#12. I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer
I'm a dragon irritater.

Craig Ferguson

#13. There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity.

Linda Sunshine

#15. I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

John Marin

#16. Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi