Setting Quotes

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I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have.… — Rob McElhenney
When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it. — Rickson Gracie
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time… — Christiana Figueres
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal… — Roderick Nash
Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being. — James Cameron
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole… — Michael Graves
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment. — Robert Edmond Jones
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church… — D. Patrick Miller
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing… — Charles de Lint
I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write… — Charles de Lint
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. — Amos Bronson Alcott
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. — Wystan Hugh Auden
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on… — C.S. Lewis
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and… — James Anthony Froude
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the… — Robert Kennedy
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. — John Dryden
I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take… — Bill Vaughan
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… — Evelyn Waugh
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms… — Edward Thomas

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