Set Them Quotes

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Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul
Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard… — Clive James
When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers… — Linus Torvalds
Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man. — Jerry Reed
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that… — Johnny Knoxville
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of… — Isaac Newton
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. — Judith Martin
As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them for you, such… — Dolph Lundgren
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human… — H. L. Mencken
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the… — John Dos Passos
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. — Lorrie Moore
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the… — Winston Churchill
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.… — Franz Kafka
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. — Mario Puzo
Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a… — Neil Gaiman
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like… — Francesca Lia Block
For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way… — Amin Maalouf
Motherâ€™s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truthâ€™s direction, even those… — Mary Karr
That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them… — George Bernard Shaw
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,… — Desiderius Erasmus

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