I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
ISAAC WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet...
ISAAC WATTS Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
ISAAC WATTS I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
ISAAC WATTS The Lord builds up Jerusalem,
And gathers nations to his Name:
His mercy melts the stubborn so...
ISAAC WATTS Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, a...
ISAAC WATTS 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber aga...
ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS Maundy Thursday Jesus invites His saints To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit...
ISAAC WATTS Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city...
ISAAC WATTS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come! Let earth receive her ...
ISAAC WATTS CHRISTMAS DAY The King of glory sends his Son, To make his entrance on this earth; Behold the midni...
ISAAC WATTS Justice and Judgment are thy throne Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one...
ISAAC WATTS PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred so...
ISAAC WATTS Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
ISAAC WATTS Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the ...
ISAAC WATTS Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gi...
ISAAC WATTS A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
ISAAC WATTS How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book Go...
ISAAC WATTS But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.
ISAAC WATTS Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you've collected thrice The train of action throu...
ISAAC WATTS Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
ISAAC WATTS In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every da...
ISAAC WATTS How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...
ISAAC WATTS But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never mad...
ISAAC WATTS How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day Fro...
ISAAC WATTS Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things w...
ISAAC WATTS I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what...
ISAAC WATTS For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arriv...
ISAAC WATTS How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetr...
ISAAC WATTS I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure wha...
ISAAC WATTS A flower, when offered in the bud,/ is no vain sacrifice.
ISAAC WATTS Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
ISAAC WATTS Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment,...
ISAAC WATTS Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when ...
ISAAC WATTS A holy reverence checks our speech, And praise sits silent on our tongues
ISAAC WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet...
ISAAC WATTS 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber ag...
ISAAC WATTS Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
ISAAC WATTS Tis true my form is something odd
But blaming me is blaming God
Could I create myself ...
ISAAC WATTS Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so
ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do
ISAAC WATTS I would not change my native land, for rich Peru with all her gold
ISAAC WATTS 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber...
ISAAC WATTS Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so ...
ISAAC WATTS I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ...
NAOMI WATTS No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli...
NAOMI WATTS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ...
NAOMI WATTS Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
NAOMI WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma...
NAOMI WATTS It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer...
NAOMI WATTS It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol...
NAOMI WATTS There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to def...
NAOMI WATTS If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...
NAOMI WATTS Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
NAOMI WATTS Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
NAOMI WATTS Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieve...
NAOMI WATTS I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, ...
NAOMI WATTS I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
NAOMI WATTS I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has...
NAOMI WATTS There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do you...
NAOMI WATTS As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit rec...
NAOMI WATTS There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not...
NAOMI WATTS I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
NAOMI WATTS You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
NAOMI WATTS And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain p...
ALAN WATTS INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
WATTS HUMPREY We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptio...
ALAN WATTS We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of fl...
ALAN WATTS We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u...
ALAN WATTS Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spiritu...
ALAN WATTS The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it
ALAN WATTS Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropo...
HEATHER WATTS I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo...
CHARLIE WATTS The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin...
ALAN WATTS But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
ALAN WATTS In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit...
ALAN WATTS You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce...
ALAN WATTS But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
ALAN WATTS And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
ALAN WATTS Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag...
NAOMI WATTS The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTS Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
ALAN WATTS I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN WATTS No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identica...
ALAN WATTS But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,...
ALAN WATTS To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,...
ALAN WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't enj...
ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can it takes a certain amount of luck. It's like blessings from...
ANDRE WATTS The last few years have been a bit of a struggle. I got over the brain thing and my hand has come ba...
ANDRE WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at – that made an ongoing conce...
ANDRE WATTS The conductor said that I won precisely because I made this mistake and managed to continue playing.
ANDRE WATTS When you went to hear one of these people, ... it was their conviction that got you. They were each ...
ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can – it takes a certain amoun...
ANDRE WATTS I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
HEATHER WATTS Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let ...
HEATHER WATTS Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between ri...
ALAN WATTS I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be care...
REGGIE WATTS The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.
REGGIE WATTS With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our ti...
HEATHER WATTS When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o...
NAOMI WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inherita...
ALAN WATTS The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying t...
ALAN WATTS I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unles...
REGGIE WATTS When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
NAOMI WATTS We had the wind advantage and it was too close for me to try to chip it. We needed that goal before ...
BRANDY WATTS They surprised us a little bit. We didn't adjust anything, we just got our heads back in the game an...
BRANDY WATTS It's close to home and I get a chance to keep playing soccer. I wasn't ready to give it up.
BRANDY WATTS I think it will be tougher because we're going to start getting into a lot better teams and the offe...
BRANDY WATTS It was the best side has played.
BOB WATTS We believe in communities in America.
BOB WATTS If we don't make offers (today), we're behind schedule.
BOB WATTS Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.
BOB WATTS Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.
BOB WATTS Everybody was talking about it. I've seen the plane fly over several times. It's got a roar. I just ...
BOB WATTS We are excited about the beneficial use of our landfill gas. With Granger, we have been able to take...
BOB WATTS What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that&#...
ALAN WATTS Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn'...
NAOMI WATTS It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a cha...
CHARLIE WATTS So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
ALAN WATTS The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become i...
ALAN WATTS Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
ALAN WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritanc...
ALAN WATTS But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accou...
CRAIG WATTS The Pavilions really knocked themselves out.
DAVE WATTS For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was...
CHARLIE WATTS For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get in...
REGGIE WATTS I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
CHARLIE WATTS Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated b...
REGGIE WATTS The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel li...
ALAN WATTS When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but ...
CHARLIE WATTS But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
ALAN WATTS I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just fe...
REGGIE WATTS We thought this was a good time to reward Viagra users and provide some incentive for them to stay o...
DANIEL WATTS The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
ALAN WATTS Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favour...
NAOMI WATTS I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life i...
REGGIE WATTS I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of hig...
REGGIE WATTS It's an escape from the everyday. It's also a way to connect with society.
CHARLIE WATTS We lost wickets in pairs too often and, when bowling, we had a couple of loose spells and that's whe...
FRASER WATTS I would like to commend Mrs. Matheny. I'm sad for her.
TOM WATTS I would like to commend Mrs. Matheny, ... I'm sad for her.
TOM WATTS To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light ...
ALAN WATTS He would copy negatives and would publish them.
JENNIFER WATTS We think the current Viagra label is appropriate ... we think it fairly reports and alerts the patie...
DANIEL WATTS I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Fost...
CHARLIE WATTS I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with ...
REGGIE WATTS When you watch the (news) segment, isn't it very clear to you that he's talking about radical Islam?...
ANGELL WATTS This is what the word of God says. This is nothing new to the Christian community.
ANGELL WATTS We have not talked to the Israelis on this topic. We continue to maintain our long-standing commitme...
ANGELL WATTS I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in ...
REGGIE WATTS There is a concern if (the venture) can execute as effectively as (companies) that have it all under...
TOM WATTS An all-cash transaction will minimize the equity dilution.
TOM WATTS Investors will look to Iridium's success as a bellwether, even for [later] broadband projects.
TOM WATTS Investors will look to Iridium's success as a bellwether, even for [later] broadband projects,
TOM WATTS The two appraisers came in so close together, that was particularly good. It gives everybody confide...
TOM WATTS I want to make sure that's not a forgotten goal.
TOM WATTS The way he carried himself as a man. He was a friend to everyone first, before he was a politician.
TOM WATTS Between now and August, the satellite radio companies are in a lull period. I don't see upside surpr...
TOM WATTS Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.
PETER WATTS The first stumble is really expensive. If you already have a low score and there's a delinquency, yo...
CRAIG WATTS The biggest arena in the area is Jesse Boot in Nottingham, but it is a long trip and too far from Ma...
DAVID WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at – that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't ...
ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can – it takes a certain amount of luck. It's like blessings f...
ANDRE WATTS The estimated cost for operating such a reactor — these are very preliminary — is in the neighbo...
DAVID WATTS It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.
PETER WATTS The great thing about making yourself the villain is nobody’s likely to contradict you.
PETER WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe ...
NAOMI WATTS She (Wray) looked up at me and went, 'You're not Ann Darrow. I am! ... At the end of the night ... s...
NAOMI WATTS He is the ultimate man.
NAOMI WATTS