Isaac Watts Quotes

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

Isaac Watts

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• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Model
  • Follow
  • Islam

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Death
  • Sin
  • Glory

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Quality
  • Film
  • Realistic

• Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Rest

• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Quality
  • Balance
  • Attitude

• I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Time
  • World

• There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Men
  • Night
  • Fear

• The remedy is worse than the disease.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Disease
  • Worse
  • Remedy

• I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.

  

  Caroline Sunshine
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Summer

• I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Different

• For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Theology
  • Rebellion

• I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • War
  • Born
  • London

• I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.

  

  Joe Morton

• No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Moon
  • Flower
  • Shining

• A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Sacrifice
  • Flower
  • Vain