Top 100 Ezra Quotes
#1. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
Ezra Taft Benson
#2. There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson
#3. There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
Ezra Taft Benson
#5. Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
Ezra Taft Benson
#6. It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
Ezra Pound
#7. God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. Ambrose managed to fight his way free long enough to shout, Am I the only ghost here doesn't know how to ghost?
Abigail Roux
#9. The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
Ezra Pound
#10. I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Ezra Pound
#11. I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
And there is no hurry about it;
I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
Seeing that long standing increases all things
regardless of quality.
Ezra Pound
#12. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
Ezra Pound
#13. Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#14. If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.
Ezra Klein
#15. Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#17. Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
Ezra Taft Benson
#18. Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.
Ezra Taft Benson
#19. Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.
Ezra Miller
#20. We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and do what is best for the kingdom of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
#21. Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#22. Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding ... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
Ezra Pound
#23. Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Ezra Taft Benson
#24. Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#25. The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Ezra Pound
#26. You will be Mrs. Ezra Carmichael until you leave this earth. I wouldn't have it any other way,
Love Belvin
#28. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#29. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#30. The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
Ezra Taft Benson
#32. Technique is the test of sincerity.
Ezra Pound
#33. The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
Ezra Taft Benson
#34. I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.
Ezra Taft Benson
#35. Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Ezra Pound
#36. I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.
Ezra Miller
#37. The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
Ezra Miller
#38. Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and your eternal welfare are at stake, your information best be accurate.
Ezra Taft Benson
#39. Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Ezra Taft Benson
#40. The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
Ezra Taft Benson
#41. Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
Ezra Taft Benson
#43. I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.
Ezra Miller
#44. When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Ezra Miller
#45. Literature is news which stays news.
Ezra Pound
#46. A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#47. Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
Ezra Taft Benson
#48. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?"
"Not particularly.
Robyn Schneider
#49. When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Ezra Pound
#50. The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
Ezra Taft Benson
#51. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.
Ezra Taft Benson
#52. There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
Ezra Pound
#53. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Ezra Taft Benson
#54. I believe in some parts of Nietzsche,
I prefer to read him in sections;
In my heart of hearts I suspect him
of being the one modern christian;
Take notice I never have read him
except in English selections.
Ezra Pound
#55. Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
#56. Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
Ezra Taft Benson
#57. Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
Ezra Taft Benson
#58. Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
Ezra Pound
#59. To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
Ezra Pound
#60. It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
#61. I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound
#63. Sometimes you want to dress a certain way ... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
Ezra Koenig
#64. Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
Ezra Taft Benson
#65. L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
Ezra Pound
#66. I've had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers'in my early youth - my period of exploration. I think that's essential. Anyone who hasn't had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.
Ezra Miller
#67. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive
Ezra Taft Benson
#68. Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#69. I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.
Ezra Furman
#70. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
#71. Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.
Ezra Taft Benson
#72. The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound
#73. It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.
George Ezra
#74. When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Ezra Taft Benson
#75. See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back;
Ezra Pound
#76. And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart.
Ezra Pound
#77. The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.
Ezra Taft Benson
#78. The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
Ezra Pound
#79. As we see in Ezra's life, committed study of Scripture can bring about much more than merely head knowledge. It can bring God himself into all the recesses of our being, for "the word of God is living and active" (Heb 4:12). Take
Richard J. Foster
#80. Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Ezra Stiles
#81. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
Ezra Taft Benson
#82. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.
Ezra Taft Benson
#83. Ezra, you're being ridiculous. I'm over it. That's what girls do; they get angry, and then they get over it. Haven't you ever been friends with a girl before?
Robyn Schneider
#84. Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.
Ezra Taft Benson
#85. Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
Ezra Taft Benson
#86. A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Ezra Pound
#87. I cannot recall a time that I did not believe in Jesus Christ.
Ezra Taft Benson
#88. Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
#89. Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in this moment that Ezra was wrong. What often makes something tragic is that it can be avoided.
Emma Mills
#90. Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
#91. The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
Ezra Taft Benson
#92. Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
Ezra Miller
#93. Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
Ezra Pound
#94. We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.
Ezra Taft Benson
#95. The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
Ezra Pound
#96. I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.
Ezra Taft Benson
#97. With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Ezra Pound
#98. Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
Ezra Taft Benson
#99. I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.
Ezra Pound
#100. I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
Ezra Taft Benson
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