Isaac Watts Quotes

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

Isaac Watts

• Power
• Evil
• Justice
• Pride
• Honor
• Shining

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• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • You
  • Easy

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Child

• I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Life
  • Romantic
  • Confident

• I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Bad
  • Care
  • Voice

• When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Always
  • Choice
  • British

• If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Vision
  • End

• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Vision
  • Sun

• If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • Diversity
  • Republicans

• One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

  

  Fay Weldon

• I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Believe
  • Feeling
  • Picture

• We take the same line as the United States: the austerity policies need to be accompanied by greater flexibility to stimulate growth.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Growth

• You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Positive

• From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

  

  William Inge
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Cry

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Thoughts

• Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Justice