Elena Ferrante Quotes

Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second.

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• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Control

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Business
  • Leader

• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Home
  • Singing
  • Bird

• Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Fine
  • Level

• My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Family
  • Ancestors
  • Royal

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Idea
  • Organization
  • Social

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Artist
  • Jazz

• As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  

  John Burns
  • Done
  • Experience
  • High

• I find talented, driven, boundlessly ambitious people and help them solve problems that will hopefully improve the lives of millions. Sometimes this means investing in startup founders. Other times, it involves helping organize and fundraise for charity or politics.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • People
  • Help
  • Charity

• Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• I had a great run with WWE. WWE gave me great visibility. I met my wife there, and I got paid a lot of money; it was just my time to go. I sensed it. I was smart enough to leave. That's the bottom line.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time

• Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Time