Ezra Heywood Quotes

Government is only a scaffolding to build man; a temporary convenience, to secure order and justice, to vanish as we ascend into unison with ideas; the garment society wears to be refitted for larger life, or left behind for the next arrival in the cradle. The elements of growth and original sovereignty forever inhere in the people, and no government can be perpetual, any more than a coat can be perpetual.

Ezra Heywood

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• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Walk

• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • First
  • Step

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Over

• I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • College
  • Best
  • Chance

• It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mind

• You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Win
  • Motivational
  • Winners

• I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Boy
  • Going
  • Favorite

• I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Movie
  • Years
  • First

• I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Dancing
  • Satisfied
  • Stuck

• E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Conversation
  • Now
  • Phone

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue. It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me, But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Rap
  • Crush
  • Cases

• There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • Police

• Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Society

• Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Government is only a scaffolding to build man; a temporary convenience, to secure order and justice, to vanish as we ascend into unison with ideas; the garment society wears to be refitted for larger life, or left behind for the next arrival in the cradle. The elements of growth and original sovereignty forever inhere in the people, and no government can be perpetual, any more than a coat can be perpetual.

  

  Ezra Heywood
  • Society
  • Man
  • Government