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Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“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.”

Men Hands Light America Night Black Vision Sun Creative Despair Men And Women Setting Settings Burning Rising Hands Of God Great Day Crimson

Author:Carl Sandburg

“I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.”

Thinking Knows World I Can Environment This World Bears Equal Obvious Setting Settings Corporate

Book:Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.”

Ifs Masters Walking Mark Setting Settings Traps

Book:The Manual of Detection: A Novel

Source: The Manual of Detection: A Novel

“Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.”

Light Lasts Sun Keys Stones Shining Holes Setting Settings Grey Thrush

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.”

People World Made Fine Setting Settings Expeditions Fine Things

Book:The magic mountain: a novel

Source: The magic mountain: a novel

“Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.”

Reason Night President Car Changed Bed Conversation Summer Setting Chosen Settings Teenager Wet Sheets Bricks Motor Shaking One Night Toddler Speeding Interrupting General Motors Margarita

Author:Jen Lancaster

“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them”

Persons Reason Goal Achieve Self Help Ultimate Setting Settings Setting Goals Achieving Your Goals Goals And Life Focus On Goals

Author:Jim Rohn

“As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.”

Ifs Sun Wall Shadow Warm Setting Settings Brown Collapse Hung Scarves Tiles

Book:Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak

Source: Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak

“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”

Giving May Eye Spirit Enemy Sun Clear Doubt Strength Give Me Shame Defeat Setting Settings Fades Give Me Strength Cherokee Clear Eyes

Author:P. C. Cast

“He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. "I know I left you once." She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't. "I know I hurt you." Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't. "I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't". He slid the cloth over her arms. "If this ends, Hope, it won't be me that ends it. I think you know that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Ends Matter Enough Wanted Left Hurt Arms Mouths Forgotten Edges Arguing Shoulders Setting Settings You Again Tubs I Hurt You

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.”

Mind Made Two Ideas Real Together Three Simple Views Existence Thirds Relation Complexes Setting Settings Abstraction Compounds Accompany Separating Combining Uniting Simple Ideas

Author:John Locke

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

Knows Men Needs Persons Book Dream Reading Father Waiting Novel Modern Setting Settings Revolutionary Businessman Peasants Oppressors Inconsequential Minutiae Bookcases

Author:Walter Mosley

“So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.”

People Way Humans Heart Black Memories Air Sky Clouds Surface Setting Settings Colour Tall Horizon Plastic Coal Undone Glue Unwavering

Author:Markus Zusak

“He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my throat as he reached out and brushed a strand of hair where it had flown across my cheek. 'I believe we do have unfinished business.' 'Good.' I gulped, suddenly one big mass of tingling body parts that wanted an immediate introduction to all of his body parts. I tried to slam down a mental barrier between his mind and mine, but it did no good. The cheerleaders in my groin were setting up fundraising car washes to finance a field trip to his groin.”

“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”

World Writing Bigs Light Lasts White Behinds Sun Cold Late Window Pops Setting Snow Settings Hills Colour Seats Where You Are Yellow Afternoon Towers Violet Corn Flakes Late Afternoon

Author:Jean Webster

“For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.”

Ifs Want Trying Years May Book Memories Forget Grief Too Much Figures Six My Friends Setting Settings Sheep Forget Him Forget A Friend

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.”

Thinking Eye House Wish Feet Mom Setting Settings Scare Wish You

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.”

Stories British Setting Settings Features Novelists Admirable Personnel Scruples

Author:James Buchan

“Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens." [gestures to the setting sun] Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.”

“Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -”

Way Games Winning Easy Leadership Effort Business Race Dangerous Standards Conscience Bottom Profit Customers Setting Settings Better Ways

Author:Seth Godin

“Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.”

Hands Care Left Process Ready Standing Take Care Speed Setting Settings Boss Dough

Author:Julia Child

“How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”

Fall Fun Path Feet Setting Settings Treacherous Crank

Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

“Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.”

Trying Ends Goal Existence Aim Noble Pursuit Setting Settings Justify Exalted

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.”

People Mean Space Cities Sun Forever Fire Progress Rose Edges Setting Settings Smoke Rising Columns Illustrating Ankh

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.”

Sun Planets Refuse Setting Settings

Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”

People School Growth Results Technology Learning Teaching Meaningful Planning Setting Settings Manipulation Instruction Participation Cognitive

Author:Ivan Illich

“After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly. 'notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very wise of me.' She lifted the basket again, setting it on one hip. 'I supposed I won't see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!' And with a cheery wink, she strolled off, leaving Eragon blinking and nonplussed.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through to something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.”

“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

Belief Normal Setting Settings Dryers

Author:Jodi Picoult

“"I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."”

Knows Sometimes Able Mother Waiting Knowing Dog Birth Boxes Setting Settings Cooks Thrown Eggs Swim Salad Default Carts Burgers Pickles Oatmeal Scrambled Eggs Tots Ambrosia

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima”

Heart Long Father Memories Sun My Heart Setting Settings Gentle Rising Each Day Bless Rays Brothers Karamazov

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.”

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