Elena Ferrante Quotes

You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Elena Ferrante

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• Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Love
  • Love Is

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Love
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Independent

• It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Power

• There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Perfect
  • Security
  • Insecurity

• Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Imagination
  • Stories

• I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Men
  • Stop

• If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Art

• I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.

  

  Lorde
  • Women
  • Song
  • Sick

• You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Work

• When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Past
  • Military

• Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Crazy

• Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Life
  • Live
  • Words

• Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • World

• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subjects
  • Defend
  • Rob

• Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Friend
  • Request
  • Neutrality

• You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Friend
  • Boys
  • Girls