Settling Quotes
880 quotes by 707 authors
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All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who…
— Jack Kerouac
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A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds…
— Cyril Connolly
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The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes…
— Nhat Hanh
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We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything…
— Kurt Hahn
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We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone…
— Duffy Daugherty
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Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
— Russell L. Ackoff
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I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around.…
— Frans de Waal
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When you stop hoping you start settling.
— Valorie Burton
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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
— Roy Keane
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She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day…
— Evel Knievel
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're…
— Drew Houston
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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a…
— Jon Krakauer
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I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing…
— Jules Dervaes
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With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,…
— Pope John Paul II
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Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at…
— Janis Joplin
Who Wrote These Settling Quotes
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