#setting

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#book #books #capital #case #constitute

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#again #change #doing #i #idea

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#communicating #considering #each #generation #gospel

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doors #men #setting #setting sun #shut

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#been #before #bring #civilian #civilians

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#advantages #care #gives #i #seems

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#efforts #ever #give #human #incident

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #before #called #couple #did

It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them. ↗

— Amber Frey

#forward #goals #moving #moving forward #setting

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of. ↗

— Jack Canfield

#inspirational #motivational #self-help #inspirational