Isaac Watts Quotes

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

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• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Know
  • Say
  • Just

• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Always

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Rest
  • Present
  • Population

• Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Words

• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Women
  • True
  • Strong

• In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Present
  • Balance

• One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Spiritual
  • Lies
  • Lying

• When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

  

  Oksana Chusovitina
  • Great
  • Years
  • Gymnastics

• In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Age
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • Soul

• The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Education
  • Technology

• I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

  

  P.B. Kerr
  • Wish

• I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • People
  • Lose
  • Justified

• Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

  

  Angeles Arrien
  • Create
  • Relationships
  • Express

• The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Moving

• Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

  

  Isaac Watts
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