Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer -
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
Eckhart Tolle -
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
J. K. Simmons
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Barbara Walters -
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
Bebe Rexha -
'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.
Candace Camp -
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
Ted Allen -
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel -
I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
Laura Esquivel
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'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'
A. A. Milne -
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
Ralph Steadman -
Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.
M. K. Hobson -
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
Aga Khan IV -
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I take my religion seriously.
Jim Inhofe
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If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.
Joe Mantello -
The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.
Marquis de Condorcet -
I don't give credit to pitchers. He's going to have to show it every time. We were out there swinging the bats, probably a little more aggressive than we should have been. We swung at some balls out of the zone. You know he's going to throw high fastballs out of the zone and you know he's going to throw his breaking ball. You've got to be patient.
Carl Everett -
We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.
Barack Obama -
It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.
Aung San Suu Kyi -
Words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it’s only for a very brief time.
Elena Ferrante