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"Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." »Endicott Peabody
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"Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." »Endicott Peabody
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"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." »Gilbert Chesterton
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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." »Dan Quayle
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"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." »Ayn Rand
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"The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman
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"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age." »William Feather
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"Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one." »W. H. Auden
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"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." »Henry Graham Greene
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"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." »Tom Landry
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"Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun." »Augusta Jane Evans
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"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last." »Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
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"Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." »William Faulkner
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"Men hail the rising sun with glee, They love his setting glow to see, But fail to mark that every day In fragments bears their life away." »Ramayana
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"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin
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"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters." »Plato
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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." »Jim Rohn
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"Ego is like our shadow.... when enlightenment is at its best there is no ego and we live well within ourselves.... however as soon as the sun (of sanity)starts setting our ego starts outgrowing us." »Siddharth Astir
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"I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less." »Hazlitt
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"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle." »Annie Besant
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"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." »Ayn Rand
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"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury." »Author Unknown
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"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams." »Og Mandino
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"It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of the human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resources-oriented political rewards." »Med Jones
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"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision." »Carl Sandburg
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