Isaac Watts Quotes

To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

Isaac Watts

• Air
• Indifference
• Psalms
• Assembly
• Charitable

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• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Past
  • Passive

• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Way
  • Another
  • Desperate

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Earth
  • Marriage
  • Enjoy

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stay Focused

• I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Beauty

• I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Know
  • Play
  • Nothing

• I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Good People

• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Silence
  • Entertainment

• If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Preparation

• Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • Reality
  • Humanity
  • Sick

• Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Art
  • Experience

• I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Rest

• O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

  

  George Arnold
  • Joy
  • Air
  • Sweet

• My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Kind

• To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Air
  • Indifference
  • Psalms