Miss Iran 2001 Contest

Four legs good, two legs bad. - George Orwell

The legs are the wheels of creativity. - Albert Einstein

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. - Jayne Mansfield

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. - Abu Bakr

The best part of him ran down his mother's legs. - Jackie Gleason

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. - Salman Rushdie

I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now. - Malcolm X

There's more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. - English Proverb

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim. - Shah Rukh Khan

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. - Douglas Horton

Tell her I ain't crawlin' home to her with my tail between her legs. - Archie Bunker

My legs are so sore from the gym that I almost couldn't walk to the donut shop. - Bill Murray

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. - Miss Piggy

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. - Pete Rose

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. - Feisal Abdul Rauf

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything. - Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth. - Donald Trump

When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs. - Katya Zamolodchikova

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. - Richard Engel

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. - Terry Pratchett

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. - Rumi

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew. - Gary Zukav

There is no sign saying 'good Muslim' or 'bad Muslim.' How many lives will be lost or destroyed trying to determine who is good or who is bad? - Pauline Hanson

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. - Will Smith

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. - Unknown

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. - Terry Eagleton

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. - William Bennett

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it? - Dennis C. Blair

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. - Salman Rushdie

'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. - Aasif Mandvi

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. - Randa Abdel-Fattah

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God. - Ray Charles

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size. - Paul Harvey

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. - Marjane Satrapi