Setting Quotes - page 25

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. (Teresa of Ávila)
The Australia of her book is not merely a setting for cricket but a place of interest, of fun and of new impressions. View quote
Margaret Hughes
It is an unpleasant thing to differ in opinion with the rest of one's species - it is making a sort of North Pole of one's own, and then setting out in search of it. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
On the horizon is a star, Its earliest, loveliest one by far ; A blush is yet upon the sky, As if too beautiful to die,- A last gleam of the setting sun, Like hope when love has just begun . View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. View quote
Jean Anouilh
Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself. View quote
John Ruskin
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society. View quote
George R. R. Martin
I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know. View quote
Iggy Pop
We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves. View quote
Harold S. Kushner
If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life. View quote
Max Heindel
For most people the idea of someone else telling them how many children they should have is simply unacceptable so when governments attempt to do just that it always causes controversy. In 1979 the Chinese government introduced its infamous one-child policy, changing family life in China forever. Families were encouraged to have fewer children. Those that didn't were fined. The policy was a direct response to the preceding decades of famine and starvation. It's still in place today. According to official figures, without the one-child policy, there'd be four hundred million more people in China, that's more than the entire population of the USA. Its unlikely that other governments could undertake such an extreme path without major civil opposition. In the 1970s the Indian government also sought to bring down its birthrate. To start with it took a less aggressive path, setting up festivals around the country where vasectomies were carried out for small incentives. m31s56. (David Attenborough)
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. View quote
William Gibson
SLANG, n. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In law we draw a line between the killing of human animals and non-human ones, setting the latter apart as brutes. This was founded on a general belief that humans have immortal souls and brutes none. Nowadays more and more people are refusing to make this distinction. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up. View quote
Jason Mraz
He is setting up a mosaic configuration or galaxy for insight ... Innis makes no effort to "spell out" the interrelations between the components in his galaxy. He offers no consumer packages in his later work, but only do-it-yourself kits... View quote
Marshall McLuhan
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. View quote
Richard Branson
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. View quote
Kate Winslet
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis. View quote
Bill Nighy
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred. (Allen West (politician))
I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. View quote
Stephen Colbert
Every process which arises from our physical being and is related to it, is an event which lies outside of our volition. Every social process, however, arises from human intentions and human goal setting and occurs within the limits of our volition. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government. View quote
Rick Perry
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel