There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.
John Hume

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Ben Harper

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
David Brin

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Johnny Bench

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
Thom Yorke

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
John Polkinghorne

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
William Law

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Fran Lebowitz

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska

If you're put on a set with a lot of people, it's just nice to see everyone working together.
Tom Felton

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry B. Adams

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
John Cusack