Elena Ferrante Quotes
I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
Elena Ferrante
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J. August Richards
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
Walter Salles
I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
Lorde
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A. S. Byatt
If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Auguste Renoir
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
Corrie Ten Boom
Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.
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The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.
Claude C. Hopkins
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.
Dennis Hastert
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Donald Miller
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
Henry Ward Beecher
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.
Brandon Mull
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.
Johnny Gimble
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
Nancy Hale
No, Not even remotely...Because I don't care. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me, I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.
Erin Daniels
I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
Elena Ferrante
