Setting Quotes · Page 6

“Setting, Miss Weiss, is nobody's slut.”

— Tanya Egan Gibson

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

— Max Lucado

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

— Harold S. Kushner

Fire setting is a form of expression. When words won't come and help is needed, fire brings people running.

— Carole Hanrahan

The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me.

— Lindsey Horan

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

— Bertolt Brecht

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

— Van Day Truex

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

— Jeanne Moreau

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although…

— Lauren Myracle

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the…

— Sam Abell

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people,…

— Jim Harbaugh

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its…

— William Wordsworth

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential…

— Winston Smith

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only…

— T. S. Eliot

There is something cool about setting up at a convention, having no guarantees and you make sales because you're personable and you…

— John Dolmayan

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business. Most of the time goal setting puts too much…

— Wayne Dyer

Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I…

— Mitchell Baker

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.…

— Charles Lamb

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low…

— Greg Norman

I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science…

— Brian Greene

Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best…

— Ken Fox

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance…

— John Adams

We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage…

— Gabe Polsky

In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes…

— Hyman Minsky

Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the…

— John Templeton

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were…

— Anthony Giddens

Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible…

— Karl Popper

I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that.…

— Susan Schneider

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

I don't go out there to win rounds. I'm going out there and I'm setting up a finish.

— Dan Hooker

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

— Doug Larson

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

— Og Mandino

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

— Mat Kearney

You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

— W. Clement Stone