Setting Quotes

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Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it. — Steven Wright
'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person… — Neill Blomkamp
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the… — Margaret Heffernan
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold. — Michael Ende
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin… — Graham Greene
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors… — Jasper Fforde
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then… — Diane Setterfield
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,… — Anton Chekhov
By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain… — Hugh Prather
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards… — Siegfried Sassoon
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. â€˜To setâ€™ means here: to bring to a stand. Some… — Martin Heidegger
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
I scarcely remember counting upon happinessâ€”I look not for it if it be not in the present hourâ€”nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting… — John Keats
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not… — Alan Paton
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. — C.S. Lewis
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become… — Og Mandino

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