Top 19 Reza Shah 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. Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
#3. It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
#4. 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
#6. When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
Beth Ditto
#7. My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
Richard Dawkins
#8. Reza implemented an impressive number of reforms that were designed to turn the cracked empire he had inherited into a purposeful nation state. But he ended up, like so many of his fellow dictators, alone in his citadel. And much of the goods he did was nullified by the way he did it.
Christopher De Bellaigue
#10. Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
Terry Pratchett
#11. As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.
Brian Kernighan
#12. Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.
Gilbert Gottfried
#13. I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul and all that jazz.
Leah Raeder
#14. The unlived life is not worth examining ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.
Jo Coudert
#15. You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.
Linda Howard
#16. When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.
Alan Dale
#17. Falling for a person isn't a process. You can't plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. Love strikes in single moments. Anywhere. Anytime. Some day you catch them gardening in the sun, or singing dreadfully in the shower, and you think, Oh, I could spend all my life with you
Beau Taplin
#18. There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#19. To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
Eleanor Perenyi
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