Isaac Watts Quotes

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Isaac Watts

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• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Up
  • School
  • Knowledge

• A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • History

• I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Night
  • Weird
  • Books

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Movie
  • Seen
  • Million

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Law

• To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Home
  • Listening

• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Rest
  • Angry

• In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Tomorrow

• Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours.

  

  Edward Bouverie Pusey
  • Remember
  • Gods
  • Dwell

• Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Ways
  • Illness
  • Behave

• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  

  William Law
  • Reason
  • Pride
  • Ambition

• I said earlier 2015 year that I thought we'd get to 10 or 20 bucks per barrel because that's the marginal cost, and when you're in a price war, it's the marginal cost that determines the price.It is a price war because basically the OPEC reason did not cut production in their November 2014 meeting was that they got tired of cutting production and having American frackers and Russians et cetera grab market share.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • War
  • Reason
  • Tired

• Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

  

  Carrie Prejean
  • Character
  • Reason
  • Audience

• Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Reason
  • Glory
  • Creatures