Isaac Watts Quotes

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

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• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Discipline
  • Try

• Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Today
  • Light
  • Sports

• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Over
  • Again

• Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Heart
  • Celebrity

• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Myself
  • Story

• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Thought

• If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

  

  Christian Lous Lange
  • World
  • Live
  • Today

• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Effort
  • Hurt

• When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Tools
  • Improve
  • Description

• There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Writing

• I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

  

  Desmond Dekker
  • Life
  • May
  • Everyday

• I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • May