Ezra's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Jack's face was now buried in his hands, his elbows still on his knees, and he hunched as he fisted his hair. "Ezra?" Evidence of his anguish to come was unmistakable in the catch of his voice.
Ezra's was solid. "Yes?"
"Don't let me kill myself.

Scarlett Dawn

#3. Captain Future!" Ezra's faded eyes were agleam with hero worship. "The greatest feat of space pilotin' in history! No one else in the universe would even have tried it!

Edmond Hamilton

#4. 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

#5. Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

Ezra Miller

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Ezra Pound

#12. 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

#13. Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound

#17. The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

Ezra Miller

#18. While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

George Ezra

#19. My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

Ezra Klein

#20. The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

Ezra Taft Benson

#21. As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

Ezra Pound

#22. Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

Ezra Taft Benson

#23. I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Ezra Furman

#24. God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us
friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night.

Leo Rosten

#26. What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

Ezra Taft Benson

#27. It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

Ezra Taft Benson

#28. 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Ezra Pound

#29. The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

#30. Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude ...

Ezra Taft Benson

#31. Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

#32. The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God's great knowledge, their abilities versus God's priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.

Ezra Taft Benson

#33. Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over life's pitfalls. You may find, that life's sweetest experiences come when you go to Mom and Dad for help.

Ezra Taft Benson

#34. I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just ... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.

George Ezra

#35. Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Ezra Koenig

#36. One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

Ezra Taft Benson

#37. The truth. Nobody's coming for us. The place we're running to probably isn't safe. And there is nobody I can trust in this equation except Ezra and Byron.

Amie Kaufman

#38. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

#39. I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.

Ezra Miller

#40. Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

Ezra Pound

#41. It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Ezra Koenig

#42. Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

#43. Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Ezra Levant

#44. Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

George Ezra

#45. It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.

Ezra Koenig

#46. I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.

Ezra Miller

#47. Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.

Ezra Taft Benson

#48. You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.

Michael Koryta

#49. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

#50. It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

Ezra Klein

#51. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

Ezra Taft Benson

#52. Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

Ezra Koenig

#53. Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

#54. A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

Ezra Taft Benson

#55. What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

Ezra Furman

#56. I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

Ezra Taft Benson

#57. I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.

Ezra Miller

#58. So," I said as Cassidy and I headed toward Mr. Moreno's room, "I didn't see any secret messages last night."
"I didn't want to be predictable," Cassidy retorted. "But at least now I know you're paying attention.

Robyn Schneider

#59. A heroic figure ... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Ezra Pound

#60. I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.

Ezra Furman

#61. When the mind swings by a grass-blade
an ant's forefoot shall save you

Ezra Pound

#62. My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

Ezra Koenig

#63. Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Ezra Pound

#64. There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Ezra Miller

#65. It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.

Ezra Koenig

#66. An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Ezra Taft Benson

#67. Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

Ezra Koenig

#68. Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

Ezra Taft Benson

#69. No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it.

Ezra Pound

#70. One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

Ezra Taft Benson

#71. "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

Ezra Taft Benson

#72. Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel ... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.

Ezra Taft Benson

#73. The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of the tyrannizing factors. It's enough to keep a man worried. Wars are made to make debt. I suppose there's a possible out in space satellites and other ways of making debt.

Ezra Pound

#74. America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.

Ezra Taft Benson

#75. A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Ezra Taft Benson

#76. For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster ... The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophets and stored at least one year's supply of survival food ...

Ezra Taft Benson

#77. Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Ezra Taft Benson

#78. It's the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn't there, we would have nothing to live for.

Scarlett Dawn

#79. The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

Ezra Taft Benson

#80. The only thing you can ever ask for is that, like what I was saying with memories, that somehow my music can fit into somebody's memory. If it can be the soundtrack to somebody's happy days then that would be amazing.

George Ezra

#81. I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

Stephen Malkmus

#82. Photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Ezra Stoller

#83. End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)

Anne Stevens

#84. I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Ezra Pound

#85. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

Ezra Miller

#86. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

Ezra Furman

#87. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#88. If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

Ezra Miller

#89. I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of those characters have been troubled, tortured people. It's been a great way to navigate my adolescence by having these more troubled kids as an outlet.

Ezra Miller

#90. When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

George Ezra

#91. The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

Ezra Taft Benson

#92. I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

Ezra Pound

#93. I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.

Ezra Miller

#94. When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're just leaving a lot of people who aren't on the bleeding edge of that conversation out.

Ezra Klein

#95. I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

Ezra Miller

#96. The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.

Ezra Taft Benson

#97. If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

#98. I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.

Sally Mann

#99. In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

Ezra Taft Benson

#100. If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

Ezra Klein