Isaac Watts Quotes
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
Isaac Watts
Quotes to Explore
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.
R. C. Sproul
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I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.
Yvon Chouinard
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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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I and other like-minded members will not vote for the final package when it comes back if it has drilling in the Arctic there.
Charles Bass
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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.
Aristotle
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It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
William Lloyd Garrison
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This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
Michelangelo
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
William Wordsworth
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
