Isaac Watts Quotes

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

Isaac Watts

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  

  Hans Berger
  • First
  • Order
  • Waves

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Look

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Racism
  • Racial

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • God
  • Character

• Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna goWhen the whole thing's done.But no one knows for certainAnd so it's all the same to me.I think I'll just let the mystery be.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Done

• The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Time
  • May

• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

  

  Booker T. Washington

• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  

  Ben Chandler
  • Happy
  • Political
  • Hand

• You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

  

  Don Shula
  • Work

• A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

  

  Prince Philip
  • Gun

• 'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Fun
  • Silly

• It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Why
  • Question
  • Forever

• It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we put ourselves inside the stories we photograph. He always strove for the decisive moment as being the most important. I always work for a group of pictures, to tell a story. If you ask which picture in a story I like most, it is impossible for me to tell you this. I don't work for an individual picture. If I must select one individual picture for a client, it is very difficult for me.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Honor

• It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

  

  Del Harris
  • Together
  • Basketball
  • Defense

• What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Meaning
  • Unhappy
  • Creature

• At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Joy