Settling Quotes

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Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what… — Maureen Johnson
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished… — Thomas Pynchon
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away. — Confucius
She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had… — Margaret Atwood
There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are… — George A. Sheehan
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you… — Regina Doman
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. — Jane Austen
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… — David Foster Wallace
Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. — Harper Lee
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. — Azar Nafisi
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants… — Ezra Taft Benson
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit. — Thomas Kinkade
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always… — Haruki Murakami
And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or… — Nora Ephron
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life — Chuck Palahniuk
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in… — Thomas Paine
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her… — Alice Hoffman

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