Top 1200 Setting Sun Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.

I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

If you don't simply communicate with your spouse what household tasks you would like them to do, you are setting yourself up to be angry.

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe and pleasing setting.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything. We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

There's a lot of places where you can go to understand and to learn what it is that British nationalists believe and feel, and to see them in a political setting.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

I stay out of the sun, and if I'm in the sun, I'm wearing SPF. I protect my skin as much as I can; I learned that a long time ago. I also exercise every day and I get the endorphins going. It's important not only for my physical self but also for my mental self and my emotional self. I'm healthy, I eat well most of the time, I take care of myself and I drink a lot of water. But I also enjoy myself. Taking care of yourself doesn't have to be painful, it's about finding the right balance, I think.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Setting out around midnight, I couldn't help shaking my head, "We're the goddamned hottest vampire hunters ever." I muttered.

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

Me and Future, we did 'Dirty Sprite,' 'Ain't No Way Around It,' 'Turn on the Lights.' Every time we record, we're setting bars.

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

In my experience, it is the leader - the CEO - who plays the crucial role in creating and 'owning' an organization's culture, setting the tone, and executing on that consistently.

I'm a great believer in setting myself goals, and I like to think that, once I've a goal to aim for, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.

By providing clear objectives for your team, and setting guardrails for how they get there, you will set them on the path to success.