Ferrantes Quotes & Sayings

This is why governments all over the world love missionaries - they civilize people and get them into the money system," Suelo observes now, but at the time he was flabbergasted. What of Jesus's teaching his followers to give up possessions? "And suddenly it dawned on me: if you were going to call something Antichrist, this would be it. The people who were promoting this so-called Christianity are really Antichrist. — Mark Sundeen

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. — Mark Rothko

Whenever I think about my stupid empty life, I come to the conclusion that I'm just wasting my time, and I'm not the only one. Everybody I know is the same, except for old Jiko. Just wasting time, killing time, feeling crappy.
And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever?
And if time is lost forever, what does that mean? It's not like you get to die any sooner, right? I mean, if you want to die sooner, you have to take matters into your own hands. — Ruth Ozeki

Go ahead, make me mad, I'll just use you in one of my books. — Millicent Ashby

We believe in a strong dollar ... Chinese financial assets are very safe. — Timothy Geithner

I thought you hated demons. Now you use them like servants. The Ravener, the Drevak demons, Agramon-they're your employees. Guards, butler-personal chef, for all I know."
-Jace to Valentine, pg.260- — Cassandra Clare

What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down. — Alan Greenspan

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life. — Sinclair Lewis

We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps. — Marie Helvin

There is a classic Zen saying that a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, nor can the ocean be separated from a wave. — David Levy

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet — Jon Bon Jovi