Settling Quotes · Page 8

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

— Don Shula

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

— Robert Jordan

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

— Laozi

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

— Nora Ephron

“A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.”

— Haruki Murakami

I guess its when being comfortable gets confused with settling for what's easy...

— Anonymous

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I sleep alone because I'm busy guarding my heart.

— Livefree2dream44

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious…

— Edna Ferber

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in…

— Henry Miller

If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission…

— Phil Angelides

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to…

— Marian Burros

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

— Suzanne Collins

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves,…

— Stafford Cripps

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in…

— J. B. Priestley

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion…

— Horace

We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large…

— David Ben-Gurion

So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and…

— Louis Farrakhan

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness.…

— Rajneesh

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…

— Edward Said

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are…

— Frans de Waal

Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because…

— Craig Silvey

Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten…

— Bill Hybels

Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you…

— Jean Chatzky

Most people don't know this, but if you settle a debt for less than the amount you owed, you are potentially responsible…

— Jean Chatzky

Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often…

— Herb Boyd

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us…

— Anonymous

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted,…

— Lauren Bacall

When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and…

— Jennifer James

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt…

— Nora Ephron

“In all honesty Phoebe never actually gave much thought to being Kevin's girlfriend. She fell into their relationship the way others fall…

— Lucinda Rosenfeld

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated…

— Adrian Tan

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

— George Herbert

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

— Poppy Montgomery

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

— Cassandra Clare

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

— Juan Manuel Santos

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

— Bethenny Frankel

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

— Jeremiah

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

— Seth Godin

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our destiny.

— Donald Trump