Setting Quotes

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, Ive always felt less is more, and its really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

You'll fail at a 100% of the goals you don't set.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

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.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to prove that there's no God, ... That's their bias to start with.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Pessimism is my default setting.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

If you refuse to set a bold goal for your financial future, you're really setting a goal anyway: To keep things the way they are.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

World peace comes about when each individual lives in a peaceful setting. Likewise, when each individual lives in a peaceful setting, it means that world peace has been realized.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Some people are jewels in the wrong setting.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.