#were

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#blocked #home #hours #into #matter

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#afraid #death #defeat #fear #having

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#barack obama #country #fine #him #number

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#i #knew #pleasures #simple #were

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#complicated #else #everything #life #poetry

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention. ↗

— Jeremy London

#begging #brother #growing #growing up #i

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#i #music #only #painting #things

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#did #feelings #had #i #negative

My sister said she was tired of the blood diet and wants to go home. I guess you'll have to trade your double-wide coffin in for a sleeker single ↗

— Devyn Dawson

#vampires #werewolves #diet

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#came #challenging #could #difficult #fact