Elena Ferrante Quotes

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

Elena Ferrante

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• I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Want
  • Know
  • Style

• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Successful
  • Drug
  • Year

• In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Been
  • Attack
  • Almost

• Great books are rare.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Books
  • Rare

• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Music
  • City

• I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Words
  • Hand
  • Body

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Industry

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Book

• I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • History
  • English

• I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Good
  • Work

• You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • People
  • High
  • Forever

• Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016

  

  Dan Savage
  • America
  • Savage
  • November

• The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Proud

• I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Doubt