Set Quotes

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. (John Lennon)
But how foolish it is to set out one's life, when one is not even owner of tomorrow! View quote
Seneca
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. View quote
Groucho Marx
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship. View quote
Omar Bradley
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. View quote
Albert Einstein
Give me the laundress' bill and I will set to music even that. View quote
Gioachino Rossini
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. View quote
Richard Bach
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. (Horace Mann)
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. View quote
Thomas Paine
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. View quote
Kiran Desai
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? View quote
Carl Sagan
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. View quote
Gillian Anderson
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. (Michelangelo)
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. View quote
Antonio Porchia
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. View quote
Thomas Paine
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