Elena Ferrante Quotes

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

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• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Cheating

• Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Nature
  • Nice
  • Better

• I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Girl

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Nature
  • Walking
  • Explore

• We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Trying
  • War

• I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Human Nature
  • Seed

• Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • She
  • Nature

• … honoring one’s created nature

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature

• For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Good
  • Nature

• One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Art
  • Nature

• Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience
  • Nature

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• Man is by nature a political animal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Animal

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Control

• It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • Nature
  • High

• Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Brain

• Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Vulnerability

• I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Trying
  • She

• I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • School
  • Favorite
  • Researching

• Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Up
  • Green

• As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Result
  • Forces