Setting Quotes

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. (Solomon Asch)
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. View quote
Washington Irving
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. View quote
William Feather
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. View quote
Fisher Ames
More people worship the rising than the setting sun. View quote
Pompey
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. (John Ruskin)
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them. View quote
Michael Chabon
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. View quote
Tariq Ali
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. View quote
W. C. Handy
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun. View quote
Plutarch
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. View quote
James Russell Lowell
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78. View quote
Paul Dirac
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. (Bo Bennett)
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting. View quote
Bruce Beresford
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. View quote
David Antin
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not. View quote
Ron Kind
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me. View quote
Yuan T. Lee