Isaac Watts Quotes

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Isaac Watts

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
  • Challenge

• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Most

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Speak
  • I Can

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Think
  • Deep
  • Speak

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Speak

• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Walls

• When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

  

  Lana Turner
  • Done
  • May
  • Think

• I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Know
  • Speak

• I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dream
  • Speak
  • Year

• Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I read French much better than I speak.

  

  Cara Black
  • Better
  • Speak
  • Read

• The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Same

• Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Health
  • Physicians
  • Propensity

• From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • House
  • Night

• The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Life
  • Principle
  • Identify

• Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Speak
  • Harsh
  • Softly