Elena Ferrante Quotes
And to keep under control the anxieties of change I had, finally, taught myself to wait patiently until every emotion imploded and could come out in a tone of calm, my voice held back in my throat so that I would not make a spectacle of myself.Elena Ferrante
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
Daniel Bryan -
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin -
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
Garrett Hardin -
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
Randeep Hooda -
Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
Manny Pacquiao -
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
Garth Davis -
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Jack Black -
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman -
If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
Kate McKinnon
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
Nat Faxon -
Caffeine. The gateway drug.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
Tahl Raz -
You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
Barry Sternlicht -
I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
Harold Ramis -
Customers are extremely savvy. They don't want to pay more.
Karen Katz -
A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough people, the politician can use it to steer the public in his desired direction. Fear is an emotion that is often used this way. A smart politician knows that if he can create fear in enough people, those people will give up what they truly want in order to give the politician what he says they need.
Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones -
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson -
And to keep under control the anxieties of change I had, finally, taught myself to wait patiently until every emotion imploded and could come out in a tone of calm, my voice held back in my throat so that I would not make a spectacle of myself.
Elena Ferrante