Ezra Pound Quotes

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.

Ezra Pound

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

  

  Halima Aden
  • History
  • Think
  • Oppression

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Society
  • Literature
  • Sad

• For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • War
  • Running
  • Failure

• 'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Age

• When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Trying
  • Church

• Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

  

  Bill Owen
  • Beer

• By ancestry, I was born to rule.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• Not having alcohol has kept the weight off around my waist; my skin feels so much better, and I am sleeping really well.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Alcohol

• The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

  

  Lionel Sosa

• No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Couple

• Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • People
  • Hero

• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Mind
  • England

• We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.

  

  Peter Roskam
  • Standards
  • Conservation
  • Fuels

• When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Rest

• If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Value
  • Boredom

• Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.Spare their women for Thy Sake,And if that is not too easy,We will pardon Thy Mistake.But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be,Don't let anyone bomb me.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Women
  • Mistake

• Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Life
  • Death
  • Limit