#k

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

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#back #blew #born #described #everything

You know it's easy here to buy journalists. ↗

— Emile Lahoud

#easy #here #journalists #know #you

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#making #reality #responsibility #take #you

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#determined #fighter #going #i #out

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun. ↗

— Richard Cardinal Cushing

#church #fun #govern #priests #will

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg. ↗

— John Lahr

#his #inside #life #like #living

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#aging #care #fight #good #i

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#competition #good #healthy #long #makes