Isaac Quotes
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.
The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.
The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.
The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they draw nigh to hope in God.
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.
If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.
Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.
Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.
Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.
