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.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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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.
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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.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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I will run against anybody.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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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.
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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!'
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
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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.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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Lend less than you owe.
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Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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.
