Isaac Watts Quotes

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

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• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

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• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

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• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

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• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

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• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

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• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

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• The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

  

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• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  

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• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  

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• Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

  

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• I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

  

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• By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

  

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• What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

  

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• It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Should
  • Expected
  • Desirable