Elena Ferrante Quotes

A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.

Elena Ferrante

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• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Education
  • Serious

• What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Focus

• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Hope
  • Reading

• Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Science

• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Trying

• Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Time
  • Book
  • Study

• I'm not in politics.

  

  David Attenborough

• Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

  

  John Heard

• When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Up

• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  

  Fritz Sauckel
  • Political
  • German

• Of course I want the Furys, of course I want the Joshuas, but the question is, do they want me?

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Question

• We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

  

  John Hope
  • Time
  • River

• There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.

  

  John Grisham
  • Good
  • Money

• I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

  

  Darrell Issa

• My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • Mother
  • Father
  • English

• 'Until recently we were a trio. Before that, a quartet. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m beginning to detect a trend.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Beginning

• Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

  

  Frederick Tennyson
  • Perfect

• Beauty is a mute deception.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Deception

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

  

  Confucius
  • Language
  • Distance
  • Changes

• A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Revenge
  • Humiliated
  • Resentments