Elena Ferrante Quotes
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.
Elena Ferrante
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
Adam Clymer
I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
Pat Sajak
People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
Gary Vaynerchuk
When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
Gary Neville
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Dakota Johnson
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Donald Rumsfeld
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.
Elena Ferrante
