Fifty dorcas they’re setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They’re too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can’t slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Goal setting is another integral part of achieving any dream. It is what takes a supernatural vision into the material realm where we can see it being accomplished.
Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.
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.
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J. K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing — she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.
By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.
Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.
Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.
That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.
The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.