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

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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
  • Black
  • Girl

• 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

• A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • May
  • Success
  • Failure

• Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

  

  Ezekiel Hopkins
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Vessel

• We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Thought
  • Racial
  • Ethnic

• The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• 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