Settled Quotes

518 quotes by 463 authors

You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette… — Terry Pratchett
I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,… — Walt Whitman
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter… — Lorrie Moore
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having… — P.G. Wodehouse
It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people… — Dan Chaon
Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Well, my love,â€ said Alexia with prodigious daring to Lord Maccon, â€œshall we?â€ The earl started to move forward and then stopped abruptly and looked… — Gail Carriger
Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. â€œLadies? After you.â€ â€œRude,â€ Claire said. â€œI was being polite!â€ â€œNot when you have a flamethrower. — Rachel Caine
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill… — Sarah Dessen
Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day… — Abraham Verghese
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be… — Osamu Dazai
Time doesnâ€™t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own… — Dean Koontz
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest… — Lev Grossman
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In… — Julian Barnes
Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbitsâ€“are they our friends or our enemies?… — George Orwell
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before… — Booker T. Washington
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try… — Terry Pratchett
...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations.… — Emma Donoghue
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe

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