Isaac Watts Quotes

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.

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• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Song

• I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Song
  • Me
  • Wanted

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Science
  • Way

• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Territory
  • Taxi
  • Canoe

• May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Wind
  • Destiny
  • Ocean

• Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Long
  • Character
  • inspirational

• The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Form

• [Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Up
  • Book
  • Free

• Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Hope
  • Gun

• ...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Wanted
  • Would Be
  • Outsiders

• The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Judgment
  • Dare

• I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Theatre
  • Stage
  • Fountain

• There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Fun
  • Joy
  • Spiritual

• C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Heard
  • Scientist
  • Grade

• Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Priority

• Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.

  

  Isaac Watts
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