Isaac Quotes

It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

The moon is such a planet, I can’t even stand it. What else is it if it’s not a planet?

I don't want to offend people.

I have a lot of obligations.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

What you do, you don't think of as a product

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne; Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings