Setdown Quotes & Sayings

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. — Joseph Butler

Adieu, Lord Dain," she answered without turning her head. "Have a pleasant evening with your cows."
Cows?
She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he'd felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his ... cows. — Loretta Chase

There never was night that had no morn. — Dinah

One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others. — Michael Josephson

Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it. — George Sand

When God bless you with a gift(person - family/friend) ~ Cherish the gift for if you abuse it, you'll lose it. — Vernita Simmons

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor. — Toussaint Louverture

Rightous is as rightous doth, not as named — Eve Edwards

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity. — Vladimir Kramnik

Similarly, when an author switches back and forth between wildly different genres, she also alienates her readers. — Emlyn Chand

The horses are talking ... just listen. — Monty Roberts

Live the moment for the moment. — Michael Jordan

At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him. — Takashi Miike

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia. — Jack White

We are getting what we paid for, and if we want something else, we are going to have to pay for it, in work, sweat, and sacrifice. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. — James Joyce

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? — Abraham Lincoln