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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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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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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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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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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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
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Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.
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I do not believe on giving amnesty.
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When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
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I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.
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I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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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.
