Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Media

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • World
  • Money
  • Myself

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Business

• I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Never
  • Person

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Relationship
  • Inspiration

• What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • World
  • Important
  • Success

• I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Respect
  • Church

• Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

  

  Jessica Cutler
  • People
  • Bad
  • Famous

• I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Band

• Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up
  • God

• The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Country
  • Power
  • Claims