Elena Ferrante Quotes

The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Law
  • Seems

• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Free
  • Win
  • Season

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• Everybody likes a compliment.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Everybody
  • Compliment
  • Likes

• Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Health
  • Care
  • Year

• With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • People
  • Respect
  • Motorcycle

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Talent

• I'm really tired of virtue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tired
  • Virtue
  • Really

• I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Sit

• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Degree

• I never thought I would go into the dance charts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Never
  • Dance
  • Thought

• I was afraid to express myself for a while.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Express

• I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Watching

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Level

• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Poverty
  • Treasure

• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Freedom
  • Solitude
  • Head

• If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Blood
  • Vegetables
  • Turnips

• Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Christian
  • Mistake
  • Blood

• The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Blood
  • Neck
  • Copper