Elena Ferrante Quotes

It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

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• The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Truth
  • Practice
  • Politics

• If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Future
  • Simple

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Kids
  • Teacher
  • Involved

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

  

  Larry David
  • Background
  • Sloth
  • Mostly

• If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Car
  • Season
  • Test

• It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• Losers must have leave to speak.

  

  Colley Cibber

• Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Law

• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Human
  • Creativity
  • Heritage

• The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

  

  Carol Ross Barney
  • Today
  • Environment
  • Challenges

• Human beings-any one of us, and our species as a whole-are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

  

  Bill McKibben
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Experience
  • Winter
  • Appreciation

• It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Discover
  • Borders