Setting Quotes

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The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the… — Boris Pasternak
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a… — P. C. Cast
He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. "I know I left you once." She opened… — Kelley Armstrong
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound… — John Locke
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has… — Walter Mosley
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on… — Markus Zusak
He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my… — Katie MacAlister
There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else. — Harry Crews
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down… — Jean Webster
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and… — Seth Godin
Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While… — Julia Child
How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall? — Ellen Hopkins
His eyes, Iâ€™d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for… — Richelle Mead
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the… — Terry Pratchett
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun. — Dave Eggers

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