Settest Quotes & Sayings

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere. — Hermes Trismegistus

That I should make much of myself and turn it on all sides, thus casting coloured shadows on thy radiance
such is thy maya.
Thou settest a barrier in thine own being and then callest thy severed self in myriad notes. This thy self-separation has taken body in me.
The poignant song is echoed through all the sky in many-coloured tears and smiles, alarms and hopes; waves rise up and sink again, dreams break and form. In me is thy own defeat of self.
This screen that thou hast raised is painted with innumerable figures with the brush of the night and the day. Behind it thy seat is woven in wondrous mysteries of curves, casting away all barren lines of straightness.
The great pageant of thee and me has overspread the sky. With the tune of thee and me all the air is vibrant, and all ages pass with the hiding and seeking of thee and me. — Rabindranath Tagore

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. — Ian Hart

Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul. — Dwan J. Young

Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game. — Jeff Thomson

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete. — Taiye Selasi

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz

Open your eyes: Each new day, in itself, has a secret. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made. — Patrick Rothfuss

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley