Setting Quotes

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

Worry is negative goal setting.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

A goal is a planned event

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

Keep your eye on eternal goals

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.