Elena Ferrante Quotes

The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.

Elena Ferrante

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• I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Relationship
  • Amazing
  • Producers

• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wife

• We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Hypocrisy

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• God enters by a private door into every individual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Door

• Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

  

  Samuel Horsley
  • Knowledge
  • Quality
  • Wonder

• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Star
  • Obstacles

• I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up
  • Help
  • Morning

• That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Important
  • Why

• Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Moments

• Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Team
  • Running

• I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Women
  • America

• I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Light

• My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Dad
  • Crazy
  • Personality

• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Power
  • Law
  • Lawyer

• I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • People

• I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Sometimes
  • Doing
  • Said

• My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Heart
  • American
  • Culture

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Pool
  • Board
  • Void