Setting Quotes · Page 6

“judgment is not about destruction, but about setting things right.”

— William Paul Young

“Jewell Stewark smiled at me from a billboard, the rain giving her face tears.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

— Jimmy Savile

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

— Steven Wright

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

— Adam McKay

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

— Plutarch

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

— Samuel Insull

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's…

— William Wordsworth

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and…

— Oscar Wilde

The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as…

— Robin Sharma

The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the…

— Jim Rohn

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

— David Cottrell

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize…

— Paul Harvey

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they…

— Vladimir Putin

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting -…

— Virginia Postrel

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer,…

— Chelsea Cain

Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of…

— Ken Kesey

Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a…

— Jase Robertson

Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will…

— Dorothy Bryant

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political…

— Alastair Campbell

I believe that every life , irrespective of its events and setting, holds something of unique value, which it should be possible…

— Iris Origo

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…

— Bharati Mukherjee

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel…

— Lewis Thomas

This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the…

— George Soros

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…

— Seneca the Younger

Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand…

— Vitit Muntarbhorn

For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay…

— Jennifer Grotz

What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your…

— Jonathan Gruber

Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence…

— Lisa Unger

I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you…

— Paolo Gentiloni

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.

— Nicholas Haslam

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

— David Leslie

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

— Walter Wager

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

— Tommy Douglas

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

— Dara Torres

“that power setting produced an acceleration of over”

— David Weber

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

— Diane Johnson

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

— Shane Claiborne