Elena Ferrante Quotes

When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

Elena Ferrante

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• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Consideration

• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Play
  • Like
  • Try

• A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Space
  • Fly

• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• I am a conservative and proud of it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Proud
  • Conservative

• I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Women
  • Nature

• I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Idea

• I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • Family
  • Character

• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Life
  • College
  • Better

• Well it's bulls and blood,It's dust and mud,It's the roar of a Sunday crowd.It's the white in his knuckles,The gold in the buckle,He'll win the next go 'round.It's boots and chaps,It's cowboy hats,It's spurs and latigo.It's the ropes and the reins,And the joy and the pain,And they call the thing rodeo.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Gold

• The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid an unnecessary danger, just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Hand

• My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art

• So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Road

• My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.

  

  Clara Shih
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• I do the best I can when I'm accepting the role to say, 'This is about as much as I can do, and if that's not suitable for you, then you should hire somebody else.'

  

  Billy Crudup

• I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Good

• The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Promise

• The marathon has so many elements to prepare for. I think that is one reason I always want to come back for more. There is always something to change in your preparation and I am still trying to discover what I am capable of. I guess I just love the challenge.

  

  Dathan Ritzenhein
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Challenges

• A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Religion
  • Inspiration

• Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure there would be world peace.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• I remember making up songs in my head.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Up
  • Remember

• In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Grandmother

• When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
  • Task
  • Urgency