Elena Ferrante Quotes
There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
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Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
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The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
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You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.
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The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.
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Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
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What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!
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Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
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I've always been a very sexual person. That doesn't mean I'm going around feeling my breasts and pressing myself against men, but I'm a sexual being.
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Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
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I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience.
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I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
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There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
