Setting Quotes

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

My must-have hair products are Phyto silk spray and Kusco-Murphy setting lotion.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.