Set Quotes - page 4

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. (Bruce Lee)
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.
Robert Frost
Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you're working out, you're going to feel good.
Jason Statham
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine.
Karen Blixen
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Samuel Johnson
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Samuel Johnson
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Henry Miller
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. (Maya Angelou)
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
Jerry Lee Lewis
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert Humphrey
I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
Stephen Colbert
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
John Wesley
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
Octavia Butler
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
Jesus Christ
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them.
Oscar Wilde
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. (Oscar Wilde)
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts ... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
George Fox
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Kenneth Grahame
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
Theodore Roosevelt