Isaac Watts Quotes

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Isaac Watts

• Winning
• Struggle
• Prize
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• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Dreams
  • Awards

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Winning
  • Prize
  • Magical

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
  • Me

• I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
  • Think
  • Game

• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn’t. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven’t eaten for two days you’ll understand.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Up
  • Winning

• For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Society
  • Black

• There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Money
  • Book
  • Fall

• There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Winning

• Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Together

• No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

  

  Daniel Zovatto
  • Life
  • Struggle

• You can't go on winning all the time.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Time
  • Winning

• I am not carefree. I'm just not. I experience an immense amount of joy, a crazy amount of joy through sadness and so much struggle. There's something problematic about 'carefree black girl.'

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Black

• I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • People
  • School
  • Religious

• I think that's a fair assessment. When you're on a winning streak, it seems you can't do anything wrong, and even when you do something wrong, it seems that it's overshadowed by something bigger or better. When you're riding a losing streak, it seems you're always just one mistake from putting yourself back in that big hole.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Winning
  • Mistake
  • Hole

• That witchcraft comment on Bill Maher? I was in high school! How many of you didn't hang out with questionable folks in high school? But no, there's been no witchcraft since. If there was, Karl Rove would be a supporter now.

  

  Christine O'Donnell
  • School
  • High

• It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Live
  • House
  • Small

• The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • She
  • American
  • Him

• Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Winning
  • Struggle
  • Prize