Top 100 Set Of Quotes
#1. Passed to the pilots flying at NORAD's direction.By 10:45 there was, however, another set of fighters circling Washington that had entirely different rules of engagement.These
Anonymous
#2. Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.
Terry Teachout
#3. One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#4. It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.
Margot Kidder
#5. Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.
Bashar Al-Assad
#6. When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
Helena Christensen
#7. There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
Naomi Watts
#8. There was only one set of eyes I saw when I closed mine at night and when I reopened them in the morning.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#9. to put forth my final words on this subject...there is no dilemma, there is no problem...unless you, the believer...create the problem yourself by adopting a set of beliefs that puts you at odds with the ongoing labor of science and discovery. I am not telling you here that god does
Robert Butler
#10. The organization's competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon.
Pearl Zhu
#11. I didn't say anything for a while, studying the structure of his face. And then I traveled through a perfect set of marble eyes that came to still darkness over a sea of lava. Something was there, I was sure of it, only I couldn't see it, could only feel it, a feeling of him holding something back.
C.C. Wyatt
#12. I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#13. Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.
Hortense Odlum
#15. Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
J.K. Rowling
#16. A twerp was defined as a guy who put his set of false teeth up his rear end and bit the buttons off the backseats of taxicabs.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.
Susan B. Anthony
#18. I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.
Cecily McMillan
#19. There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth.
Conchitina Cruz
#20. Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
Erma Bombeck
#21. Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
Isaac Asimov
#22. There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.
John Betjeman
#23. Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.
Alane Adams
#24. He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.
Ryu Murakami
#25. Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.
Bob Hartley
#26. We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.
Brian Falkner
#27. I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.
Nicholas Royle
#28. Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart.
Sonja Yoerg
#29. In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison
#30. Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
Gavin Bryars
#31. The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress
Irving Janis
#32. When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.
Bob Anderson
#33. Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
Daniel Goleman
#34. I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately we knock them down.
Peter Diamandis
#35. Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.
You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.
Manoj Arora
#36. you must play by a new set of rules - because, increasingly, the tried-and-true tenets of success are just tried, not true.
Blake Mycoskie
#37. A young man who had watched her eating with her fingers offered a set of chopsticks- those sticks for eating that had become so popular. He looked at her suggestively. Instead of blushing, she accepted the chopsticks boldly and continued to walk on, using them to eat noodle and vegetable dishes.
Donna Jo Napoli
#38. How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?
Michelle Tea
#39. The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
#40. Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
Antonio Damasio
#41. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot
#42. We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
Eamon De Valera
#43. When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
Edward Thorndike
#44. I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.
Romano Prodi
#45. A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.
James M. Kouzes
#46. Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
#47. We need to overcome this fear of insignificance and replace it with a mind-set of contribution.
Todd Henry
#48. Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.
Barry Boehm
#49. You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them,
Mark Leslie
#50. I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
Mark Billingham
#51. The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.
Jim Rohn
#52. I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.
Henry A. Kissinger
#53. Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.
Charlton Laird
#54. She made each suture perfectly - one neat stitch after another - until they were lined up across Archer's wounds like sharp black letters, as if every set of stitches was a healing word Doc had written to keep his skin together. There
Traci Chee
#55. Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
Sacha Guitry
#56. An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#57. The script of a play is not a finished product: It's a set of instructions.
Terry Teachout
#58. We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.
Chris Adami
#59. In the cell was a rack, a winch, a furnace, a set of branding irons, a pot for melting wax, nails of different lengths. A thumbscrew, a pair of flesh-tongs, heavy tweezers, a set of surgical instruments, a series of small metal trays, ropes, wire, preparations of quicklime, a hood and a blindfold.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#61. The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results.
James Bastien
#62. I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at ping pong with their husband? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.
Elizabeth Taylor
#63. Today a child told Santa Ken that he wanted his dead father back and a complete set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Everyone wants those Turtles.
David Sedaris
#64. The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.
Paul Shepard
#65. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.
Douglas Adams
#66. Undeterred by his lack of enthusiasm, she leaned forward, flashing him a set of breasts that didn't so much defy gravity as flip it off, insult its mother, and piss on its shoes.
J.R. Ward
#67. They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.
Tom Wolfe
#69. Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.
Robert C. Martin
#70. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
Stephen King
#71. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
Stephen Jay Gould
#72. I am such a 'True Detective' fan. I was anticipating it each Sunday as it came. I'm kind of a sci-fi fan. I was really hooked on the 'Battlestar Galactica' series. I think I owned every box set of 'Battlestar Galactica.' I also really love 'Bob's Burgers.'
Pedro Pascal
#73. This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs
no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
Shane Claiborne
#74. As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#75. Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
Bill Moyers
#76. The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
Tom Shadyac
#77. But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).
Corey Haim
#78. When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions
that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.
Edward Albee
#79. I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.
Daniel L. Doctoroff
#80. You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
David Talbot
#81. The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.
Shaffi Mather
#82. One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.
Tasha Smith
#83. While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
Ron D. Burton
#84. There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.
Vivienne Westwood
#85. As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
Ira Sachs
#86. Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
Ben Marcus
#87. Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#88. The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.
Blue Balliett
#89. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else
Douglas Wilson
#90. One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.
Matthew Specktor
#91. Is a universe of discrete material particles possible only with one specific set of natural laws and parameter values? In other words, does human imagination, which can conceive of other laws and values, thereby exceed possible existence?
Edward O. Wilson
#92. Given the right set of circumstances, people could be happy everywhere and all the time. And these people actually do exist. In beer commercials.
Stephen Altrogge
#93. When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.
Thomas Sowell
#94. The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality
which became America's
was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.
Hugh Hefner
#95. Big iron kitchen scales and a full set of weights aren't carried lightly.
Terry Pratchett
#96. Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.
John Hutton
#97. When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#98. I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
Tadanobu Asano
#99. My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.
Charles Stross
#100. Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.
Kenneth I. Chenault
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