Elena Ferrante Quotes
Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.
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He wants quickness and explosion off the ball. He's a real up-tempo guy.
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Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
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God helps me for sure every day and at every contest. I broke my hand and had to get surgery on it. The recovery was really frustrating because I had to skip three weeks at the beginning of the season. But I flipped it around and took it as a blessing. I said a lot of prayers and just asked God to do His thing. I did other things to compliment the recovery like getting the right sleep and taking care of my body. But I went back to the doctor after four weeks and he was ecstatic about the recovery of my hand. I take that as a tribute to my faith and my belief in doing the right things.
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
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Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.
