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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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.
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If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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Claude C. Hopkins
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.
Dennis Hastert
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.
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
In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.
Confucius
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
Lao Tzu
A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
T. D. Jakes
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps
Be clear, be brief, be human.
Ernest Gowers
Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.
Andrew Breitbart
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
