#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

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. ↗

— John Ruskin

#close #dawn #every #life #setting

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

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#always #ashes #consumed #couple #fire

It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#any #been #box #fashion #given

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. ↗

— David Suzuki

#activity #altering #carbon #cycle #earth

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#liking-yourself #loving-yourself #self-love #setting-the-standards #standards

Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies. ↗