Isaac Watts Quotes
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
Isaac Watts
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
Olivier Theyskens
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
Wendi McLendon-Covey
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
Damon Galgut
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
Zac Efron
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
Olivia Holt
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
Jack Wagner
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
Sally Field
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
Salman Rushdie
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
Laura Linney
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
Karen Traviss
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Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
N. K. Jemisin
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Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.
Taliesin
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In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?
Anthony Kennedy
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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I really learned it all from mothers.
Benjamin Spock
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What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
Clifford D. Simak
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If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
Brian Sutton-Smith
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
T. Harv Eker
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I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
Joe Shuster
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On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
Al Seckel
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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
Isaac Watts
