Settles Quotes

109 quotes by 99 authors

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always… — F B Meyer
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of… — Sun Tzu
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays… — Stephen King
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath.… — Truman Capote
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference.… — John Shelby Spong
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for… — Neal A. Maxwell
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight… — Tenzin Palmo
Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action? — Laozi
It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection. — Albert Einstein
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds… — Oliver Goldsmith
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain… — Henry Ford
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled… — Ernest Newman
Out here a man settles his own problems. — John Wayne
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as… — Gail Caldwell
I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot… — Ivor Cutler
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate… — Obafemi Awolowo
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and… — Robert A. Heinlein
No other art-mediumâ€“neither painting nor poetryâ€“can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in… — Ingmar Bergman

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