Set Quotes
7944 quotes by 5058 authors
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
— Joseph Addison
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
— Ayn Rand
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The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
— Charles Stanley
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It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as the president's, found…
— Eric Cantor
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The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the…
— Alan Grayson
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the…
— John Mott
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More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader…
— Lance Secretan
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
— William Faulkner
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
— John Stuart Mill
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Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner,…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and…
— Teri Hatcher
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
— Ramakrishna
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead…
— George Horace Lorimer
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain…
— Thomas More
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful…
— Tom Platz
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