Jhumpa Lahiri Travel Quotes & Sayings

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. — Ludwig Von Mises

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source. — Idris Elba

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"
Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it. — Olaf Stapledon

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. — Jhumpa Lahiri

God is looking for prepared men to send to the world of education to manage the place for him. — Sunday Adelaja

Every edit is a lie. — Jean-Luc Godard

Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all. — Marcus Aurelius

My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes comprised more than this, but it always included this. It was the opposite of doubt and of the spirit of doubt. What irreverent men called credulity, reverent men called faith; and although one word was more respectful than the other, yet the two words were with most men strictly synonymous. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

That morning, the two eagerly awaited fairy-tale princes had left their white horses in the stable for once and traveled by Tube," declaimed Xemerius unctuously. "At the sight of them, the eyes of the two princesses shone, and when the two concentrated sets of young hormones collided, expressing themselves in the form of embarrassed kisses and silly grins, the clever and incomparably handsome demon unfortunately had to throw up in a garbage bin. — Kerstin Gier

To Travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The faithful will be victorious over the sinners ... — Saddam Hussein

Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly. — Frederick Lenz

But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked.
"See you at the fireworks?"
She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods.
I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just ... ask me out?"
He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day."
So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game. — Rick Riordan

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri