Isaac Watts Quotes

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

Isaac Watts

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • You
  • College

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Work
  • Job
  • History

• On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Me
  • College
  • Doing

• When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • Time
  • Soul

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Light

• No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Words

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life. My workouts are not all about vanity. They are about clarity for my mind and soul.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Soul
  • House
  • Johannesburg

• Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Soul
  • Discipline
  • Perseverance

• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • College
  • Daughter
  • Summer

• Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

  

  Angie Stone
  • Music
  • Driving

• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Soul
  • College
  • Hermits