If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good
– Ezra Pound
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- Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever. – Ezra Pound
- The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. – Ezra Pound
- A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone. – Ezra Pound
- Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
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- Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound
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- Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
- Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. – Ezra Pound
- In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound
- If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I’d be a 400 pound guy. – Scott Adams
- Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. – Elizabeth von Arnim
- The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s. – Ezra Taft Benson
- It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. – Thomas More
- God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation – Sunday Adelaja
- Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry… – Thomas Jefferson
- Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. – Brennan Manning
- Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. – Thomas Jefferson
- So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about. – Stephen L Carter
- Opinions are many, but there is only one truth. Don’t get lost in opinions. – Debasish Mridha MD
- But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I’m willing to myself. – Sherwood Smith
- A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words. – Jack Weatherford
- If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he’d go with the sunshine. – Meredith Marple
- A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream. – Orrin Woodward
- And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. – Iveta Cherneva
- To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness. – Jennifer Lane
- Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you’re taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward. – Elise Kova
- And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward. – Heather Hackett
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. – Lauren DeStefano
- To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy. – Jocelyn Soriano
- …one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. – Markus Zusak