Elena Ferrante Quotes

We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

Elena Ferrante

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• Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Heart
  • Sun

• The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

  

  Albert Bandura
  • motivation
  • Performance
  • Effects

• I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Politics
  • Thing
  • Unsophisticated

• Isn’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when you’re with some other ones It’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!

  

  Rachel Field
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fall
  • Memories
  • Sweet

• I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels would be taking a piece of touring, merchandise, and everything else. The world has changed so dramatically from when we first started.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • First
  • Record
  • Dreamed

• I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Desires
  • Hobbies
  • Googling

• I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • World
  • Suppose
  • Grasshoppers

• The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Believe
  • Financial
  • Socialism

• It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Sleep
  • Rhythm
  • Collapse

• I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Innovation
  • Frugality

• I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

  

  Carolyn Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gray

• Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass.

  

  Canibus
  • Internet
  • Canibus
  • Music Makes Me High

• There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Entering

• I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

  

  Paul Auster
  • I Can

• If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Great Deal

• only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Process
  • Consent
  • Iraqis

• I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Responsibility
  • Congress
  • Republicans

• We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Equilibrium
  • Framework
  • Gaze