Ezra Pound Quotes

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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• I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Motherhood

• I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Even

• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Children
  • Income
  • Veterans

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Challenge

• It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Women
  • True
  • Paris

• Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Media
  • Opportunities

• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Japan

• The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • May
  • Best
  • Goals

• I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Always
  • Color
  • Favorite

• I don't get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Always
  • Sleep
  • Enough

• You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Work
  • Fitness
  • Diet

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Beginning

• Yes.” She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It’s a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light.” Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Peace

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To look for perfection is a lonely old ride It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride When you look for independence and you get what you want How come you look back, thinking what have I done? But time and again, it dawns on me It's the price we pay for liberty I should have know, we all need a place to call home

  

  Joey Tempest Europe
  • Time
  • Home
  • Liberty

• Liberty is not a right but a duty.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Liberty
  • Duty