Setting Quotes

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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. — Og Mandino
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest… — Hendrik Tennekes
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And… — Daniel Boone
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself — Robert Foster Bennett
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back… — Donald Trump
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary… — Julia Cameron
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and… — David A. Bednar
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). — Paulo Coelho
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to… — James Madison
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. — Lewis Thomas
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock… — George Steiner
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be… — James Madison
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential… — John D. MacDonald
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape… — Louis Thomas McFadden
The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I… — Paulina Porizkova
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of… — George Santayana

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