Isaac Watts Quotes

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

Isaac Watts

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• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Win
  • Shopping
  • Election

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Real
  • View
  • Point Of View

• The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Change
  • Changes

• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneur

• Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Action
  • Nice

• Beulah, Peel me a grape.

  

  Mae West

• The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

  

  Larry Niven

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

  Benjamin Spock

• Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.

  

  Hilary Duff
  • Singing

• Remember we're all in this alone.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Remember
  • Alone

• All this could be part of a plan. But it’s some plan, isn’t it?; With mass destruction, pitiless extermination and annihilation going on all the time.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Time

• It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Song
  • Service

• I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Done

• The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Random

• It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Mind
  • Shoes

• Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • May
  • Giving

• I love the State Fair. It's an event that really brings the urban and the rural Minnesotans together. Rural people get a chance to mix with the urban folk and see what the cities have to offer, and urban people get to remember where their food comes from and who produces it for them.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • People
  • Remember
  • Together

• Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Proud
  • Cool
  • Lose

• There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that.

  

  Colm McCarthy
  • Mind
  • Funny

• If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Soul