Set Quotes - page 3

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right. (William Shakespeare)
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
Georg Cantor
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau
I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
C. S. Lewis
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
Michael E. Porter
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. (Stephen Ambrose)
If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
Vanessa Hudgens
When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.
Zack Snyder
What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative...and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film -- it's interesting in that way.
Tobin Bell
Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.
Goran Visnjic
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
Thomas Paine
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. (José Rizal)
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
Thomas Carlyle
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim
Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.
Herbert von Karajan
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher