Elena Ferrante Quotes

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

Elena Ferrante

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• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Important
  • Hope

• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Long
  • Want
  • Baseball

• The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • More

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Dark

• Often, I am asked, 'What was your father like?' or, 'What would he think?' These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.

  

  Bernice King
  • Father
  • Lost

• In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

  

  Max Lerner

• I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Work
  • American
  • Value

• I think writing and singing go together, but I treat them as two separate careers because I write for others. If I'm writing for myself, I prefer to be with the producer. And then we can vibe out and throw ideas back and forth, and I'll basically let the producer play me a bunch of beats until I vibe with one.

  

  Kehlani
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Singing

• I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Guy

• My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Dad

• And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Women
  • Cooking

• I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • Home
  • House

• Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Finest Thing

• The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Truth
  • War

• The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its 'mission.' The church supports the emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • God
  • Power
  • Truth

• Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Existence