Settled Quotes

518 quotes by 463 authors

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. — Carl von Clausewitz
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed! — Conan O'Brien
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once… — Virginia Lee Burton
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is… — Brooks Atkinson
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others… — George Washington
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory… — Rick Perry
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk… — William Shakespeare
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. — Seneca the Elder
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have… — Rajneesh
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder… — Frederic Bastiat
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle

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