Settling Quotes

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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower. — Bruce Feirstein
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow… — James Weldon Johnson
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get… — Amanda Bynes
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot… — John Churton Collins
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental… — Janet Frame
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be,… — Laozi
I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's… — Aubrey O'Day
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You… — John Shelton Reed
Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in… — Frederick Lenz
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the… — Edward Burnett Tylor
Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all… — Frederick Lenz
Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own… — Linda Sunshine
There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you… — Criss Jami
Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me. — Poppy Montgomery
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all. — Vincent D'Onofrio
Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds… — Jennifer James
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that… — D. H. Lawrence
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the… — Daniel Dennett

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