#into

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#concept #criterion #empirical #facts #growth

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#eye #had #i #impaired #into

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. ↗

— Alan Lakein

#bringing #future #into #now #planning

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#eat #food #go #i #into

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#bring #gotta #i #into #lib

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite