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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• 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
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• 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
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• 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
  • Long
  • Power
  • Society

• 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
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Simple
  • Style
  • Very

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• 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
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• The thing about death is that it's honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Death
  • Honest
  • About

• I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Small
  • Comforting

• 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
  • Law
  • Question

• 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
  • Nature
  • Bird

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

  Benjamin Spock

• Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Brave

• TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Life
  • Wish

• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Home
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

  

  John Bigelow
  • Enemy

• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Imagination
  • Living
  • Yes

• Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Study