Set Quotes - page 2

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. (Norman Cousins)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. View quote
George Carlin
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. View quote
Aleister Crowley
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. View quote
Ben Kingsley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The sun has not yet set for all time. View quote
Livy
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. View quote
Joseph Addison
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. View quote
William Wilberforce
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. View quote
Robert Burton
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. View quote
Hugh Downs
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The truth will set you free - but first it will make you miserable. View quote
James A. Garfield
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. View quote
John Steinbeck
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. View quote
Edward de Bono
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. (Seth Godin)
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set. View quote
Harriet Van Horne
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin