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

• By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Risk

• Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!We think no Birds so happy as we!Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill!We think so then, and we thought so still!

  

  Edward Lear
  • Happy

• My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Home
  • Book
  • Girl

• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• 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