Settled Quotes

518 quotes by 463 authors

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club,… — Damon Albarn
The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West… — Mary Fallin
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… — Charles Lamb
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. — Samuel Johnson
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have… — Mary McCarthy
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and… — Lord Acton
People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all… — Barry Lopez
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory. — Martin Amis
I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The… — Parminder Nagra
Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous… — J. William Fulbright
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to… — John Boyd Orr
It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater,… — Christine Taylor
I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready. — Holland Taylor
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed… — Dylan Walsh

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