Setting Quotes

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With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene… — John Sandford
I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking… — Kristi Yamaguchi
I respect Senator McCain a great deal and believe he has many - many good ideas and suggestions that I would certainly want to avail… — Mitt Romney
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as… — Eugene V. Debs
When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present… — Maximus the Confessor
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting… — Grant Morrison
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama… — Ann Macbeth
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall. — Li Shangyin
Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting.… — Kent Nerburn
Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world… — John Templeton
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for… — Christopher Moore
Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up… — Xunzi
The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste! — Omar Khayyam
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you. — Shalom Harlow
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And… — Gay Talese

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