Elena Ferrante Quotes

The furies who indulge the happiness of today to feed the violence of tomorrow.

Elena Ferrante

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Most
  • Concepts
  • Bitcoin

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Me
  • Winning
  • Worth

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Governance

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Control

• Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • War
  • Song

• Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up

• The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Universe
  • Luck
  • Bird

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Money
  • Happiness

• If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?

  

  Claude Cahun
  • Flesh
  • Vibrations
  • Insensitive

• The furies who indulge the happiness of today to feed the violence of tomorrow.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Violence
  • Happiness