Setting Quotes

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

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.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

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.

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.