Settled Quotes

518 quotes by 463 authors

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore… — Douglas Adams
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the… — Vladimir Nabokov
It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things… — Libba Bray
It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out… — Charlotte Bronte
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.… — W. Somerset Maugham
The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he… — Charlaine Harris
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for… — Colm Toibin
It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the… — Janet Evanovich
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by… — Isaac Asimov
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields… — Jeanette Winterson
I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers… — John Flanagan
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. — Robert A. Heinlein
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. — Malcolm Gladwell
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless,… — Cinda Williams Chima
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was… — Charles Bukowski

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463 authors contributed a total of 518 Settled Quotes, led by these top contributors: