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HAMID-REZA ASEFI I believe the crimes committed by the 'Zionist' regime are greater than the Holocaust.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners ar...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrichment activities is not acceptable to the Islamic Republic of ...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The European's submitted proposals regarding the nuclear case is not acceptable for Iran,
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The Russian proposal is not on our agenda any more.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We haven't started enrichment yet but everything depends on the result of tomorrow's meeting.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI For half a century, the defenders of the Holocaust have used every tribune to defend their position,...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The current issue should be resolved through negotiations and the existing regulations.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Unfortunately, what happened in Vienna proved the prediction that the meeting would be totally polit...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI If the Europeans are serious in continuing negotiations we would have no problem resuming the talks.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We have not demanded anything excessive. The European side should not make an excessive demand eithe...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determin...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI condolences and sympathy with the Iraqi people and the government.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We welcome the trial of Saddam, but the invasion of Iran should be included in the charges,
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI While the activities of the Islamic Republic have always been peaceful and carried out under the sup...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Israel was misleading public opinion of the international community by magnifying Iranian nuclear pr...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI If the Russian proposal makes itself compatible with the new conditions, it can be negotiated.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI It is very unusual for the International Atomic Energy Agency to vote on a decision, so the adoption...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We do not humble ourselves in the poisoned atmosphere created by foreign sources.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI As the UN secretary-general has emphasized accuracy of legal and technical aspects of the report, we...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Heightening tension will make the atmosphere inside Iran harsh, too.... If confidence is to be achie...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The Russian plan is still on the table but the ground for its implementation should be prepared. Rus...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI A well-organized terrorist organization such as the Zionist regime has the capability of such an ope...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Iran's Foreign Ministry has decided to hold a conference on the Holocaust to assess its scale by sci...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The victims have complained about the lack of timely assistance and we are prepared to send our cont...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Preliminary conditions need to be set first and this has not been done yet. Iran is in no rush for t...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI They are doing everything to avoid referral to the council. Iran is not strong enough to withstand s...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Let the negotiations with different sides continue. Later we can make judgments.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Better results will definitely be achieved by resorting to negotiations and using respectful languag...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI They entered Iranian territorial waters illegally and their questioning continues.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We have not received any particular plan yet. Its quite clear that Iran will positively look at any ...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI We haven't received any written and definite proposal from Russia yet.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The Europeans should get used to hearing other opinions, even if they don't like them.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI The comprehensive initiative will lead to a breakthrough in the currently stranded nuclear negotiati...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI This resolution is politically motivated and has been approved under the pressures of the United Sta...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI These images are nothing short of appalling, insulting, embarrassing and are unequivocally unaccepta...
GLENN TASKER The current lack of progress and any visible sign of improvement are unacceptable,
DANIEL LEVY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE No entrance to paradise untill you believe and you don't believe until you like each others don't yo...
THE PROPHET A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. S...
MICHAEL LEUNIG On Love"

For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you.

Even as he is...
KAHIIL GIBRAN The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN നിങ്ങളുടെ പല്ലുകള്‍ കൊണ്ട് നിങ്ങള്‍ ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings en...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I was taught in church that I am a child of God. I also read the Old Testament. There is a story in ...
M.E. THOMAS Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE And the prophet said to them: Surely the sign of His kingdom is, that there shall come to you the ch...
QURAN “This morning I read German and visited with a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that ...
JOSEPH SMITH A prophet is without honor in his home because,due to proximity factor a prophet may not be able to ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.
TOM HAYDEN You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, h...
THéODORE MONOD Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building ...
STEPHEN KINZER And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites...
BIBLE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The level of violence was unacceptable and beyond the proper view of punishment,
JOHN NEWTON It was a mistake on our part and unacceptable.
SAM MILLER Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very ...
ORI GERSHT You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS At that point in time he did something that was unacceptable. It was unacceptable. Period.
STEPHEN LEWIS The last offer was insulting; this one is ludicrous,
BOB ROSE The Koran doesn't make a direct quote saying that pictures are not allowed, but idolatry in not, and...
AZIZ JUNEJO He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought o...
SAADAT HASAN MANTO If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and so...
DAVID HALBERSTAM a relapse into barbarism.
JOHN A. MACDONALD Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your pass...
KAHLIL GIBRAN A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.
REZA ASLAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Saying of the Prophet
Accusations
Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die...
IDRIES SHAH Saying of the Prophet
Obligation to Learn
The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every ...
IDRIES SHAH Saying of the Prophet
Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether h...
IDRIES SHAH The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Governor Schwarzenegger made the right decision to sign into law significant improvements to a signi...
JOHN LAIRD Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
ORSON F. WHITNEY A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really m...
CRISS JAMI Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
DAVID HARE Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revoluti...
HEATHER BROOKE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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HAMID KARZAI I'm also here to ask you to do more for us in making the life of the Afghan people better, more stab...
HAMID KARZAI He's a very peaceful person, ... He has enormous capabilities of dialogue and enormous diplomatic sk...
HAMID KARZAI open trade and regional economic cooperation.
HAMID KARZAI They will be given to justice. They have committed a murder, and let justice decide. Let the courts ...
HAMID KARZAI We should respect the result, whatever that may be, and allow time for the joint commission to study...
HAMID KARZAI We receive reports now and then that he may be here or there, ... and if we get a detailed report ab...
HAMID KARZAI There is no doubt about what happened, and that's why we made that strict, strong decision to announ...
HAMID KARZAI We feared lots of attacks, lots of sabotage, lots of terrorist activities,
HAMID KARZAI we will tell them, 'go ahead and run this country.'
HAMID KARZAI This visit will also pave the way for the strengthening of economic activity in this region. It will...
HAMID KARZAI puppet governments ... set up to sabotage jihad.
HAMID KARZAI The people of Iran, not only in our fight against terrorism and in our jihad, they cooperated. But t...
HAMID KARZAI We, in Afghanistan, knew all along what was in there in Afghanistan -- the presence of terrorism, th...
HAMID KARZAI Whoever is found guilty of connection with terrorism, of connection with the perpetration of atrocit...
HAMID KARZAI I know that today is Friday but don't let your productivity wither because of it!
AMBAR HAMID How many times have you heard yourself saying 'Later' or 'Tomorrow'? Don't you think that its always...
AMBAR HAMID And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
MOHSIN HAMID A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the t...
MOHSIN HAMID ...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
MOHSIN HAMID