Ezra Pound Quotes

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Climate

• Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Body
  • Unity
  • Benefits

• All of our dreams can come true...

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Dreams

• Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Enough
  • Individual
  • Social Change

• It's just working people one by one, one at a time.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Time

• It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Facts

• You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Hometown

• If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

  

  Epictetus
  • Heart
  • Appearance
  • Roses

• Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Organization
  • Promises
  • Relies

• God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • God
  • Invented
  • Metric System

• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sins
  • Remorse
  • Importence

• Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Resembles

• Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.

  

  Georges Canguilhem
  • Philosophy
  • Values
  • Relation

• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Fingers

• The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • School
  • High
  • Rock

• I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Fingers
  • Slender
  • Rosy