Settling Down Quotes
116 quotes by 111 authors
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There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the…
— Luke Wilson
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I’m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had…
— Hannah Arendt
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For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself…
— Richard Bach
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let…
— Jonathan Coe
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and…
— Anne Enright
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In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
— Gene Tunney
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I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to…
— Nancy Johnson
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Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your…
— Garrison Keillor
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Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will…
— Edward S. Jordan
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby.…
— Kelly Cutrone
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North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the…
— Barbara Demick
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to…
— Everett Ruess
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Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it…
— Philip Gulley
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Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this…
— Ursula Goodenough
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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
— Jon Krakauer
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Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep,…
— David Lynch
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A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments…
— Italo Calvino
Who Wrote These Settling Down Quotes
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