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

• 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

• The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • American
  • Fashion
  • Heaven

• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Food
  • Path

• We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

  

  George Bird Grinnell
  • People
  • Allowing
  • Defiled

• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Giving

• Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • Living
  • Abilities
  • Digital Tools

• 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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