Natalia Ginzburg Quotes

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Natalia Ginzburg

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• Mortal

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• I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Up
  • Black
  • Doing

• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Down

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Help
  • Health

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Say
  • Honest
  • I Can

• I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Trying
  • Nice

• According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Today
  • Support
  • Security

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Night
  • Day

• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Men
  • Society
  • Progressive

• We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.

  

  Vasily Grossman

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Determination
  • Preparation
  • Ballet

• As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Flowers
  • Mortal

• The shrinking house was packed in angles of mushy arm meat and abdomens in such ways I couldn’t walk to see who was there or what food I would not eat. The sexdrives of the molding prior bodies of the dead refracted through me in the silence of the act of spreading of our silence outside the house. We clearly knew one day we’d have to all kill one another to become All, and why not begin now?

  

  Blake Butler
  • Food
  • Silence
  • Angels

• The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Strong
  • Expression
  • Peaceful

• I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

  

  Nancy Lam
  • Guilt
  • Moderation
  • Pencil

• Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Silence
  • Illness
  • Mortal