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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
— Wendy Kopp
Just g'wan back home and set down on yo' royal diasticutis and say nothin'.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
— John Steinbeck
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
— Bela Lugosi
This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.
— James Baldwin
But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.
— Geraldine Brooks
Hugo reached down and plucked a spare twig from the ground and set it on the bench between them. "This," he said, "is a wall, and I will not cross it.
— Courtney Milan
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
— George Horne
Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.
— Stephen Tobolowsky
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants. — Horace
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.
— Cheryl Richardson
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
— Knute Nelson
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
— Irving Stone
He said anger was like a heavy rock, hard to carry every day. It was easier to get through life if you could set your anger down.
— Kimberly Bradley
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
— Chuck Berry
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
— David Morrissey
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
— William Hazlitt
Sometimes he feels as though God is nothing more than a set of jaws that bites down on his heart.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
— Georgann Low
There is one thing I don't think any one has ever set down although it is true - to a monster, everyone else is a monster.
— John Steinbeck
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
— William Shakespeare
The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.
— Andrew Levkoff
set her glasses down on her dresser. "Thanks for the loan," I say. "But they make my head hurt. And they're ugly." I can almost hear her laughing.
— Jennifer Niven
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
— David Lynch
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Let it go, just let it go, but if I set down that weight what will show my arms they are strong?
— Tyler Knott Gregson
She set down the glass, palmed the
— Lisa Scottoline
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
— George Horace Lorimer
pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him:
— Hanya Yanagihara
Into my arms. It's lighter than I was expecting. I set it on the floor so that he can pass down three
— Jodi Picoult
She had found more than peace of mind. She had discovered the state of her soul set down in ink.
— Nancy Horan
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
— Martin H. Fischer
(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am. — William Shakespeare
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.
— Bryant McGill
It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps.
— Katherine Rundell
There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
— Skeet Ulrich
You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.
— Gillian Flynn
I thought about how the smallest of things could set someone on a bustling fire when you didn't have the right shoulder to lean on.
— Diyar Harraz
Don't launch it," said Bean into his microphone, head down. "Set it off inside your ship. God be with you.
— Orson Scott Card
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
— Henry David Thoreau
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
— Marie De France
You can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.
— Marietta Holley
The Sun and the science are the same; when they set down, the darkness comes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.
— Keri Hulme
Words are life set down on paper.
— Paulo Coelho
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.
— Jane Austen
Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
— William Shakespeare
There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this.
— Georgette Heyer
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.
— Pliny The Elder
I set down a beautiful chord on paper - and suddenly it rusts.
— Alfred Schnittke
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
— Taiichi Ohno
Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.
— Carl Sagan
Far better to be in places where words do what you want them to and where blood doesn't smell because it's set down in ink on the page; history
— Rafael Chirbes
You are as certain of arriving home as is the pathway of the sun laid down before it rises, after it has set, and in the half-lit hours in between.
— Foundation For Inner Peace
I reach down and pull off my shirt, revealing an incredible set of abs that can only be attained after years of strenuous dentistry.
— Chuck Tingle
Once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.
— Kylie Tennant
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
— Mark Twain
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
— Langston Hughes
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
— Travis Barker
Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I figure if you've got to take someone down or set them straight, you might as well enjoy it on some level.Malcom — Nora Roberts
He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.
— Paulo Coelho
The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.
— Nicholson Baker
With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.
— Debasish Mridha
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.
— Swami Vivekananda
For a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.
— Hal Borland
Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
— Bob Marley
Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.
— Pope Francis
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
— William Shakespeare
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
