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

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

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

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • She
  • Nature

• Then speaking of his loosely figurative work of the 1930's, in Germany I was still under nature, not that I was imitating it; now 1957 I am above nature. But everything comes from nature, I too am part of nature; my memory comes from nature, too.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
  • 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

• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

  

  Hippocrates
  • 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

• Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • World
  • Music
  • Men

• I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Nature

• There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upper hand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation, they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothing new. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism, totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variants of liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we must win.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Freedom
  • Problems
  • Prosperity

• Occasionally when a decision has been made by the ego, the subconscious will change it, because the decision is obviously such an unwise one.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Decision
  • Ego

• I'm here, I'm not queer, and I'm not going away.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Here
  • Away
  • Queer

• 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