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Quotes About Set up

When we understand the Four Tendencies, we can set up situations to work better for everyone.
~ Gretchen Rubin
There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.
~ Liz Williams
And Sarah? She is strictly by the book. If Burroughs was set up, if he didn't do it, I'm not like that guy in The Fugitive—remember that movie?
~ Harlan Coben
I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.
~ Jason Blum
Last night they came again. The soldiers had set up a defense perimeter, but there were simply too many—they must have come by the hundreds of thousands, a huge swarm that blotted out the stars. Three soldiers killed, as well as Cole. He was standing right in front of me; they actually lifted him off his feet before they bored through him like hot knives through butter. There was barely enough of him left to bury.
~ Justin Cronin
I call myself an accidental entrepreneur. I was all set to take up a brewing job in Scotland when a chance encounter with an Irish entrepreneur led me to set up a biotech business in India instead.
~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
This just reinforces our power and resentment loop: I knew I should have done it myself. I'll be responsible for this, you just do these small tasks that you can handle versus Let's dig into how we could have set you up for success. I know I have a part.
~ Brene Brown
We set up finishes for a reason so that you can build drama, work towards that finish. The drama is you don't quite get to hit it and that's why you didn't win that night. Had you hit that particular move, you would've won. Not that you hit it 4 or 5 times and the guy kicked out because guess what, it's no longer a finish.
~ Arn Anderson
Still, laws are laws, and the law of the land is that one can't set up a trust that lasts forever. There's a legal reason for it, called the rule against perpetuities. It's meant to prevent dynasties
~ Garth Stein
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
~ burke edmund ii
I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.
~ Steven Wright
We all heard about the fact that a field hospital was being set up in Central Park, and this news chilled us mightily. But we did not hear that it had been packed up a mere fifteen days later.
~ Naomi Wolf
Tell Penny how groovy it was of her to set up this little get-together, oh, and hey—can I be frank for a minute?" "Of course," said Agents Flatweed and Borderline. Snapping his fingers, Doc sang himself out the door with four bars of "Fly Me to the Moon
~ Thomas Pynchon
My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
~ William Butler Yeats
California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.
~ Craig Benson
We could, as Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy, would have suggested, deal with this in what he called "the here and now." Perls believed that the dynamic set up in the session between the therapist and patient is the same dynamic the patient sets up between herself and the rest of world.
~ Catherine Gildiner
It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
~ Nick Hornby
Who've you set up for me tonight? Set up, Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. What an unromantic phrase. Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on? It's still unromantic when you're smirking.
~ Nora Roberts
Government by precedent, without any regard to the principle of the precedent, is one of the vilest systems that can be set up. In numerous instances, the precedent ought to operate as a warning, and not as an example, and requires to be shunned instead of imitated...
~ Thomas Paine
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
~ Barry Eichengreen
Cathal Brugha, as Minister for Defence, wanted documentary proof of guilt to be provided beforehand so as to be able to satisfy an international commission (which he visualised being set up after hostilities had ended)
~ Tim Pat Coogan
In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
~ Jean-Marie Lehn
There's a destiny for everybody. The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.
~ James Redfield
All we've got left to protect here is a system that's set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.
~ William Gaddis