Elena Ferrante Quotes

If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.

Elena Ferrante

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• The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Life
  • You
  • Relax

• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Information
  • Management

• 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

• It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Forget
  • Easy
  • Noise

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • My Own
  • Background

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Political
  • Science
  • College

• It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Better
  • Gold

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Moral
  • Christianity

• In re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat.

  

  Plautus

• Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Nature
  • Compete
  • Provides

• Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hate
  • Civilization
  • Love Is

• No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

  

  Karen Tei Yamashita
  • Imagination
  • Cheesy
  • Fascination

• If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Love Is