Setting Quotes

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When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting.… — Heather O'Neill
In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems… — Ivan Illich
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck,… — James Agee
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me… — Sergio Leone
My game is going wrong - the star is setting — Alberto Ascari
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The… — Tariq Ali
I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals. — Peter Shilton
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting,… — Helen Dunmore
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked â€œon. — Pico Iyer
As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented… — Albert J. Nock
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in… — John Engler
I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a… — Jenny Colgan
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains… — Winston Smith
In almost all cases, Iâ€™m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to… — Martin Fowler
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scÃ¨ne, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio… — Norman Corwin
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole… — Willard Libby
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original settingâ€¦ but at the same time give the human touch to… — Henry Ossawa Tanner
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. — Tom DeMarco
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. — William Christopher Handy

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