This Blessed House Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes & Sayings

Humility is attentive patience. — Simone Weil

It's survival of the fittest, not the strongest or the biggest. — Ali Shaw

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week. — Eric Heiden

I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across. — Courtney Love

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame. — Whitney Houston

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see. He looked at her face, which, it occurred to him, had not grown out of its girlhood, the eyes untroubled, the pleasing features unfirm, as if they still had to settle into some sort of permanent expression. Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault. — Alexander Lukashenko

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age). — Kishore Kumar

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget. — Oscar Wilde

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too. — Melissa Jennings