Setting Quotes · Page 16

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

— Fisher Ames

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

— John Ruskin

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

— Richard Baxter

If learners do not have a roof under which they can learn we are already setting them up for failure.

— Zozibini Tunzi

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

— Michael Jordan

The choice will be to fully trust in Christ or the setting of the Anti-Christ system.

— David Wilkerson

The real problem is just not having any goals, or setting them too low.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

For me, the main thing is that I continually improve my game and make sure I keep setting the bar high.

— Manuel Neuer

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately…

— Josh Trank

You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have…

— Stephen Moyer

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though…

— Will Ferrell

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But…

— Louis Sachar

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

— Lisa Scottoline

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which…

— Vidal Sassoon

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting…

— Sigmund Freud

War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is…

— Maude Royden

Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view,…

— Dan B. Allender

Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal…

— Ernst Stuhlinger

“But the truth is that every setting can hold value. Every location can add something to the scene. Characterization can be made…

— Angela Ackerman

When Donald Trump - star of 'Celebrity Apprentice', the man who brought you Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and Trump "University" very likely…

— Chrissy Teigen

I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is…

— Josh Brolin

People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values…

— Howard Schultz

It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that…

— Barack Obama

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

— Tink

By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.

— Walter Schloss

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Privatization of utilities costs would be astronomical, as would setting up a National Bank.

— Mick Hucknall

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

— Beatrix Farrand

It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.

— Heidi Klum

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

— Patricia Heaton

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then…

— Allen West

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough…

— Ronald Reagan

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

— Ashley Purdy

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together…

— Noel Redding

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a…

— Rege-Jean Page

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less…

— Marv Albert

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always…

— Kerry Healey