Isaac Watts Quotes
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.Isaac Watts
Quotes to Explore
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
Gary Ross -
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
Damien Chazelle -
It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
Olly Murs -
I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
Karisma Kapoor -
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Wayne Dyer
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
Samira Wiley -
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo -
Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
Abu Bakr -
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
Garrison Keillor -
'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
Anthony Burgess -
Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
Lord Byron
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
Charli XCX -
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
Alan Huffman -
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
Paul Theroux -
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Lorraine Toussaint -
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Charley Pride -
I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
Margaret Thatcher -
a question i have for whoever runs these sites-where do you get all these pictures from? i can't even tell where i was when i took most of these!
Emma Caulfield -
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
Bjork -
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Isaac Watts