Elena Ferrante Quotes

I cried and cried, as if I had carelessly lost somewhere the most promising part of myself.

Elena Ferrante

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• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Way
  • Play
  • Stronger

• To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • School
  • High
  • Thought

• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Skin

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Idea
  • Fast

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Day
  • Revolution

• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Great
  • Me

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Pain

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Me
  • Space
  • Flying

• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • School
  • High

• It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Plan

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Broken

• Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Cool

• Oooooooooooooooooooooooo,

  

  Kurt Schwitters

• What you collect says so much about who you are.

  

  Ben Silbermann

• Ten years from now, I'll probably be an accountant or something, maybe a rocket scientist. That's what I'm aiming for. I've got a few degrees, I'm actually going to Yale, yeah. I'm pretty intellectual, yeah, you know, whatever you call it.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Intellectual
  • Scientist
  • Accountant

• They lost 27 fire trucks in the hurricane and seven fire stations were completely destroyed.

  

  Adam Morris
  • Lost
  • Destroyed
  • Stations

• I cried and cried, as if I had carelessly lost somewhere the most promising part of myself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Lost
  • Cried
  • Promising