“There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.” ShouldIdeasPoliticalEffortMiddleEuropeUnionsSouthDebateCoreSettingSettingsZoneDividesCurrencyProposalMonetaryEuro Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“The church should provide a setting in which people can express their questions.” PeopleShouldChurchSettingSettings Author:Ravi Zacharias
“It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.” WorldDifferentWholeBeautifulSettingSettingsCherishDifferent WorldsMontreal Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and conquest are engaged to the max. Sublimated, this can be a powerful force for the good - Plato had a lot to say about that - but acted upon it can bring evils without end.” MenEndsBeautifulYoungMotivationEvilForceInterestingPowerfulMiddleLonelyIntelligentSettingSettingsEngagedAcademicDisplayYoung WomenPlatoConquestMaxMiddle Aged Author:Catherine Wilson
“In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.” PeopleFeelsImportantRealHardJusticeEnvironmentSafeImportant ThingsCriminalsSettingSettingsThings To DoTherapeuticCriminal Justice Author:Maia Szalavitz
“We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.” WorldRecordsMonthsImpactLifetimeSettingSettingsNew World Author:Jill Stein
“We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, "Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into."” ThinkingFilmYoungHollywoodSettingTalesSellingSettingsAppealsRangeYoung WomenThrillersCloaksThink TwiceCautionary Tales Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.” PeopleKnowsStoriesWrittenSettingSettings Author:Kate Tempest
“I was really, really, really nervous when I got this role because I did feel it was important to make Alice [Cullen] just as lovable as I read her being on paper and, kind of, full of vitality. In my head she is just this light and breath of fresh air in very dramatic settings - because I feel like we're always extremely dramatic in this film. I wanted people to be able to relate to her.” PeopleFeelsKindImportantLightAbleWantedFilmRolesAirPaperBreathsSettingSettingsNervousRelateDramaticVitalityLovableFresh AirAlice Cullen Author:Ashley Greene
“It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.” IfsKnowsWorldWritingSonHusbandSettingSettingsMuse Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.” PeopleTeachSubjectsBuildingPhotographSeekingSettingSettingsConsumedWorkshops Author:Sam Abell
“Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.” ThinkingWantWritingHeartKindBookChristianPassionJesusPowerfulDramaAspectCrossesTablesSevenSettingSettingsSomedayInvitesChristian HopeTable Of Contents Author:Max Lucado
“If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.” IfsWantCharacterStoriesGivenAcceptingReaderMindsetSettingSettingsPremises Author:Karin Tidbeck
“The energy is changing here dramatically. That's part of the upheaval of the drama. The dimensional shifts are accelerating. The magnetic energy at the core of the Earth has transformed to take in the new settings of our awakening selves.” SelfEarthEnergyDramaAwakeningCoreSettingSettingsTransformedMagneticUpheaval Author:Christine McCormick Day
“The Pleiadians are saying it is going to happen in a mass setting. Within probably the next year and a half, many people are just going to have an instant awakening, a remembering.” PeopleYearsHappensRememberNextHalfMassAwakeningSettingSettingsInstantNext Year Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Those of us who are the way-showers, who are already on the path, will have accelerated to a point where we will hold an energetic setting for those people so they will be able to adjust and align while they integrate and reorientate themselves to who they are.” PeopleWayAblePathSettingSettingsShowersEnergeticIntegrating Author:Christine McCormick Day
“In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived as a lay person, then why did they become ordained? They have no sense that they have to give something up to gain so much.” IfsWayWantGivingPersonsGainsLaysSettingSettings Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.” KnowsIdeasInfluenceGenderSexualitySettingPsychologicalSettingsInvitedPsychologistPsychiatric Author:Judith Butler
“I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.” PeopleMightNovelWrittenCarefulSettingSettingsBe CarefulSuspicionGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Terry Pratchett
“Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.” HumansWarLawRightsKillingInternationalHuman RightsSettingSettingsAgendasOccupationInternational Law Author:Mairead Corrigan
“I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.” WorldDegreesSettingSettingsImplied Author:Paul S. Kemp
“The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.” MightEarthGuyGamesSidesFictionFantasyRecordsImagineMiddleProductsMetsForgottenSettingSettingsRealmsIntricateMiddle Earth Author:Paul S. Kemp
“That was like the best start I could've had, the best way I could've started in the music scene. I owe [Jack Johnson] a lot for the beginning of my career and setting me off on the right path, and that's the coolest thing that ever could've happened.” WayCareersPathHappenedSceneSettingBest WaySettingsJohnsonRight Path Author:Donavon Frankenreiter
“When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.” ShowsSongIndividualPiecesKingsMountainSingingSettingSettingsNarrativeConcertsTheatricalPivotal Author:Kate Bush
“If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindIdeasPlayGamesTalkingMorningProjectsFinishedSettingSettingsNoodles Author:Ai Weiwei
“The choice will be to fully trust in Christ or the setting of the Anti-Christ system.” ChoicesChristSettingSettingsAnti Christ Author:David Wilkerson
“I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.” MenBookHelpingRolesPlayerTeamMembersModelsCoachesPrioritiesSettingSettingsExcellentCoachingBeing The BestHelp MeEtcGood ManRole ModelsArticlesStaffClinicTeam MemberBest CoachesCoaching Staff Author:LaVell Edwards
“I'm interested in anyone cutting up music and doing remixes. I just don't think it would work in a live setting right now to do shows with a traditional DJ, but it's something that might happen eventually.” ThinkingShowsMightHappensCuttingRight NowSettingTraditionalSettingsDjsRemix Author:Girl Talk
“Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.” GovernmentMediaShadowSettingSettingsBarack Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.” I CanRealCountryStoriesProblemRememberSocialGrowsTermSinGrowing UpCrimeBallsTownsAddSurpriseSettingSettingsInnocenceLazyUrbanCountrysideRemember YouRemembers YouSocial ProblemsIdyllic Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantHas BeensCultureSettingSettingsIndianNativeFlatsNative AmericanCasinosVerticalHorizontal Author:Robert Bly
“So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.” RealCharacterLoversDisappointmentPartnersReal LifeSettingSettingsCompareMaps Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.” FeelsKindHappensCommunityDifferencesPayRightsProveTablesFundamentalsCaringWorthyCreditWarmSettingSettingsInstanceSecurePlentyFundamentalismSectsWhatever HappensRabbi Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.” IfsWorldMayChildrenLongWarEnoughProblemJobsSidesBornRoomsRightsSecurityFieldsTablesAriseSettingSettingsWar Of The WorldsStableLong LifePolishPeasantsUnemployedCountrysideSecond World WarPlentiful Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.” ThinkingNeedsProblemEssentialsMessagesHistoricalSettingSettingsInterpretationInstructionSole Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually.” WellsJobsActorsAudienceSettingSettings Author:Hrithik Roshan
“I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.” ThinkingCharacterMovingNovelSettingSettingsMatureNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.” BookGivenSimpleConditionsMediaProductsDrawsStructureSettingConclusionSettingsDescriptionConsentControversialManufacturing Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.” MenLongStatesReasonFightingExampleColorReadyTrumpAngrySexualitySettingSettingsLazyRacistNo ReasonAcceptableMore MoneyInferiorsIrrationalWorkplaceCompetitorsWorldviewIncompetentSexistGet Ahead Author:Jennifer Pozner
“I was scheduled to fight in November of 2008 in a kickboxing show called XMA. There were some controversies that happened between my management team as well as some of the promoters as far as setting up the fights. There was some talk of Ken Shamrock but nobody else had talked to Ken about it as far as the promoting.” WellsShowsFightingHappenedTeamManagementSettingSettingsControversyPromotingNovemberPromotersKickboxingShamrocks Author:Shawn Tompkins
“I didn't investigate Hillary Clinton before she was in office, I started investigated Hillary Clinton's actions after the inspector-general said that there was classified information housed in a non-classified setting.” SaidActionInformationOfficeClintonSettingSettingsInspectorsClassified Information Author:Jason Chaffetz
“If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.” IfsWayLooksKindArtSelfUseArtistBlackFiguresShadowStartingEdgesSettingMediumsSettingsFormerComicEggsDevicesEngagementPortraitsStarting PointArt HistoryFlatness Author:Kerry James Marshall
“Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.” ChildrenDifferentCountryPlayWould BeAbleGrowing UpGrowingStreetsEuropeVery GoodSettingSettingsMy ChildrenNativeGood LifeUrbanDifferent PlaceColombiaBarefootNative CountryVery Good Life Author:Shakira
“One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out which of their really abominable conservative policy priorities to prioritize. Instead, anything that came out of the Obama White House they were against. What they recognized is that when you've lost the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate, you're not setting the agenda anymore. We progressives find ourselves in a similar situation now.” HouseLostWhitePartySituationFiguresPolicyDecidedStrategyConservativePrioritiesSettingSettingsTeaAgendasWhite HouseSenateRepresentativesTea PartyPrioritizeHouse Of Representatives Author:Ezra G. Levin
“The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.” YearsDoneLostTrumpRepublicanPressesSettingSettingsDamageCredibility Author:Ari Fleischer
“There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was approved which has to do with the role and the place and the function of the institution of traditional leadership. Now that legislation, not the Communal Land Rights Bill, provides for the setting up of particular committees that would work together with the elected municipalities.” TwoTogetherRolesPiecesRightsLandParticularFunctionInstitutionsBillsSettingTraditionalSettingsRelatedWorking TogetherCommitteesLegislationApprovedMunicipality Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I remember going to Shibe Park, Connie Mack, when I was a kid with my dad and my mom. I felt more neighborhood-esque. And I like the idea, and I love the new downtown ballparks. I love when the venue is situated in a vibrant part of the urban setting.” IdeasKidsRememberFeltMomDadMy DadMy MomSettingSettingsParksNeighborhoodUrbanDowntownVenuesBallparksMack Author:Joe Maddon
“I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.” ThinkingWritingFirstsMeanSecretEnvironmentModelsAreasSettingSettingsBostonScholarshipLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I would define success as setting a goal for yourself and then accomplishing it. I think successful people set out to do something and then just do it. They know before they accomplish their goal that they will, in fact, accomplish it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsGoalSuccessfulAccomplishSettingSettingsSuccessful PeopleJust Do ItDefine Success Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson
“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.” PeopleMistakeSettingVersionsSettingsClassicClassic Movie Author:Tim Burton