Ezra Mason Quotes

Dorian, C, Corp: It's my sincere belief that your potential is wasted in that sweaty little cockpit. You should be doing the Coreworld lecture circuit. Imagine it: Packed houses. Perfect hair. Screaming girlchildren. "Tonight Only. Ezra Mason: How To State The Bleeding Obvious. ~ Amie Kaufman

I wonder if she is the kind to dream of happy endings and never risk tragedy. ~ Amie Kaufman

since i will not send this, i also feel it is my duty to inform you that almost six months on I think I still love you and that makes me sad becaue love shouldn't feel this way. is like getting kicked in the stomach every time i think of you and it makes me want to roll my face across this keyboardbiu;///ubEWdcfhugiov'byhi;.//////-='-0i9juh8ygtfdcsaazs34defg7uefg7u8hi9o0p8hi9o0p-[[09ju8dcsaazs34d9o0p-[[09. ~ Jay Kristoff

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise. ~ Mason Cooley

As their song crescendoed I had the sudden conviction that the world, which I had considered the province of meaningless chances, a mad dance of atoms, was as orderly as the hexagons in the honeycombs I had just crushed into wax and that behind everything, from Helen's weaving to Circe's mountain to Scylla's death, was a subtle pattern, an order of the most compelling lucidity, but hidden from me, a code I could never crack. ~ Zachary Mason

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. ~ Mason Cooley

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible. ~ Ezra Furman

Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

To make your child (or anyone) love you, accept any small gesture of help offered from a child and make a big deal out of it. ~ Meir Ezra

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago. ~ Mason Cooley

Yes, as we travel through this topsy-turvy, sinful world, filled with temptations and problems, we are humbled by the expectancy of death, the uncertainty of life, and the power and love of God. Sadness comes to all of us in the loss of loved ones.
But there is gratitude also. Gratitude for the assurance we have that life is eternal. Gratitude for the great gospel plan, given freely to all of us. Gratitude for the life, teachings, and sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose resurrection we will commemorate in the immediate days ahead ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it. ~ Mason Cooley

I know my own reasons for keeping Peeta alive. He's my friend, and this is my way to defy the Capitol, to subvert its terrible Games. But if I had no real ties to him, what would make me want to save him, to choose him over myself? Certainly he is brave, but we have all been brave enough to survive a Games. There is that quality of goodness that's hard to overlook, but stil... and then I think of it, what Peeta can do so much better than the rest of us. He can use words. He obliterated the rest of the field at both interviews. And maybe it's because of that underlying goodness that he can move a crowd--no, a country--to his side with the turn of a simple sentence.

I remember thinking that was the gift the leader of our revolution should have. Has Haymitch convinced the others of this? That Peeta's tongue would have far greater power against the Capitol than any physical strength the rest of us could claim? I don't know. It still seems like a really long leap for some of the tributes. I mean, we're talking about Johanna Mason here. But what other explanation can there be for their decided efforts to keep him alive? ~ Suzanne Collins

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love. ~ Harvey Mason, Jr.

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Duty is whatever opposes inclination. ~ Mason Cooley

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. ~ Ezra Miller

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability. ~ Mason Cooley

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. ~ Mason Cooley

Regardless of how it looks, everyone's intention is always good from their own viewpoint. ~ Meir Ezra

Cynicism has its own zealots. ~ Mason Cooley

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe. ~ Mike Mason

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. ~ Mason Cooley

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. ~ Mason Cooley

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. ~ Mason Cooley

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. ~ Mason Cooley

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
that the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
(excerpt from 'The Garrett') ~ Ezra Pound

I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid. ~ Andrew Mason

EZR7.6 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him. EZR7.7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. EZR7.8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. EZR7.9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. EZR7.10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances. ~ Anonymous

Intention, and intention alone, defines the results. ~ Meir Ezra

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. ~ Mason Cooley

Tim Mason. The human equivalent of C-4. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. ~ Mason Cooley

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity ~ Mason Cooley