Setting Quotes
1038 quotes by 887 authors
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun…
— Jasper Fforde
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That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me…
— Meg Cabot
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Reparations,†said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt…
— Cassandra Clare
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Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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What’s that poem again?†Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high…
— Cassandra Clare
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I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday’s eve. But humans are not as…
— Ellen Wittlinger
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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling…
— William Wordsworth
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The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not…
— Christopher McDougall
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Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...
— Richelle Mead
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The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as…
— Michael Connelly
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports,…
— Polly Horvath
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Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in…
— Tracie Peterson
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may…
— Veronica Franco
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She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile…
— Richelle Mead
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