Isaac Watts Quotes
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough.
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I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
