Elena Ferrante Quotes
I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. Housman
The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.
Max Weber
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
Jack Gantos
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis
As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
Asif Ali Zardari
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
Aristotle
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
Aristotle
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
William Shakespeare
I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!
Adolf Hitler
The Jews are not a nation!
Joseph Stalin
We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.
Oliver Kahn
