Quotes About Being Set In Your Ways

#1. Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation?

Sanami Matoh

#2. If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

Bill Gates

#3. Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

Steve Nash

#4. I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

Joanna Rossiter

#5. Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James A. Baldwin

#6. Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

Jello Biafra

#7. Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#8. She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned - rather slowly; I wasn't too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#10. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

Mark Fuhrman

#11. Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves.

Marika McCoola

#12. He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: "This is as amusing as a novel.

Laurent Binet

#13. Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

Rob Sheffield

#14. A handful of red sand from the hot clime
Of Arab deserts brought,
Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
The minister of Thought.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#15. I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

Elvis Presley

#16. sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new

Michael Connelly

#17. I love food, man! If it doesn't eat me first, I'll pretty much eat it.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#18. We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Sophocles

#19. Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

Chuck Green