Isaac Watts Quotes
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
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I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.
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I was a sad kid.
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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
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We wondered why we ever thought there was, during the Cold War, any serious danger of Russia conquering the world when they couldn't even deliver the scenery for The Tempest.
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The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
