Settled Quotes
518 quotes by 463 authors
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious…
— James Madison
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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life…
— Thomas Adams
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The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.
— James Huxley
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Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more…
— John Everett Millais
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In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically…
— Edmund Pellegrino
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We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions,…
— David Foreman
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
— Philip Larkin
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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see…
— Ralph Nader
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Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet…
— William Shakespeare
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Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He…
— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding…
— John Bates Clark
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No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
— James Madison
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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
— Mark Twain
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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever…
— Rafael Eitan
Who Wrote These Settled Quotes
463 authors contributed a total of 518 Settled Quotes, led by these top contributors: