Settle Quotes - page 14

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. (Ruby Wax)
I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly. View quote
Sophie Kennedy Clark
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. View quote
Stella Blum
Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage. View quote
Stephen Lang
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. View quote
Steve Schirripa
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. View quote
Tom Carper
I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for whatmake you happy. View quote
Wally Lamb
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. View quote
Marva Collins
I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. View quote
Halle Berry
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
The Wizard of Oz (M. G. M.) should settle an old Hollywood controversy: whether fantasy can be presented on the screen as successfully with human actors as with cartoons. ("The New Pictures," August 21, 1939) (Whittaker Chambers)
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Between emotion and logic resides the fate of thousands of the mostly unknown... who will surely then and now be asked to settle through violence what words alone cannot. Remember them, for the Peloponnesian War was theirs alone. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
Come, settle here a charitable faith, Which neighbourly affection nourisheth. View quote
François Rabelais
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. View quote
George Eliot
Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you. View quote
Shania Twain
If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less. View quote
Jane Wagner
The next time you ask someone how their day is going, expect, no, DEMAND a response. Don't settle for good. Demand the truth. Make them admit that they're having a shitty day, and then do your best to make it worse. View quote
Maddox
Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often. View quote
Ruskin Bond
Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new generations. An old person is a used-up machine [... He] has too many dogmas to [...] easily [...] believe in a new truth [...]; too many sympathies and antipathies [...] for him to come to love something unfamiliar; [...] too many habits to be able to settle on new ways. Let us add suspiciousness - the fruit of bitter experiences; a pessimism inseparable from all manner of disappointments; and finally, a general decline of powers from exhaustion [...]. View quote
Bolesław Prus
Pay attention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too. (Frederick Buechner)
The root causes of armed conflict, among them the race for natural resources, economic imbalances, and ethnic and religious tensions must be resolved, respecting the obligation to settle disputes by peaceful means under Article 2 (3) of the Charter. The obligation to negotiate is jus cogens, "negotiation” meaning dialogue and compromise, not the dictates of the stronger over the weaker. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. View quote
Eduard Shevardnadze
It's impossible for men and women who love each other not to hurt each other now and then, but most women would settle happily for a man who tried not to cause the same hurt twice. View quote
Merle Shain
The dilemma posed by consumerism is not the endless manufacturing of desires, but the temptation to settle for desires far below what we were created for. View quote
Skye Jethani