Setting Quotes
1038 quotes by 887 authors
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She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d…
— Nicholas Sparks
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How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting…
— Francis Schaeffer
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So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the…
— Jimmy Buffett
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For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these…
— Terry Pratchett
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If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
— Candace Bushnell
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting…
— Sylvia Plath
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As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help…
— John Dewey
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I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling…
— Edvard Munch
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Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires…
— John C. Maxwell
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up…
— Kate Morton
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Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the…
— Ellen Hopkins
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During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless…
— Sarah Dessen
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Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his…
— Stephen Fry
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Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might…
— Erin Morgenstern
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One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't…
— John Green
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