Settling Down Quotes - Page 4

• Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

  Ilona Andrews

  Princess, Firsts, Settling

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.216, Penguin

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• Settle down, pup. I ain’t had my caffeine yet.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pups, Settling, Caffeine

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• Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Night, Snow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dirty, Self, Circles

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• Just because we haven’t met Mr. Right doesn’t mean we’re doing anything wrong. And by the way, you’re brilliant and awesome, too. If I were a lesbian, I’d totally settle down with you and make lots of in vitro babies.

  Julie James

  Baby, Mean, Mr Right

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.108, Penguin

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• It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

  Paul Torday

  Would Be, Down And, Settling

  Paul Torday, Susan Howe (2008). “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Minho was the first one to speak since the food had come. “Maybe we should just give in to those shuckfaces. Do what they want. One day we’ll all sit around, fat and happy.” Thomas knew he didn’t mean a word of it. “Yeah, maybe you can find a nice pretty girl who works here, settle down, get married and have kids. Just in time for the world to end in a sea of lunatics.” Minho kept at it. “WICKED’s going to figure out this blueprint business and we’ll all live happily ever after.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Nice, Kids

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.37, Chicken House

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• I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mom, Dad, Laughing

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.201, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pride, Luxury, Knowing

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• People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

  Tom Robbins

  Space, People, Movement

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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• I glanced up at Zay, then walked over to stand next to him. "You look good with a baby in your arms," he murmured. I took his hand, careful with his fingers that were still wrapped in tape. "Don't get your hopes up, Jones. I'm not the settling-down type." "Want to bet on that?" he asked. "Sure." I made a fist; so did he. We pumped three times. I threw paper. Zayvion threw scissors. I'd lost. Startled, I looked up at him. "Two out of three?" Zay grinned. So did I.

  Devon Monk

  Baby, Hands, Two

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• I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Spirit, Settling

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, Horse, Winter

  Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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• I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Men, Trying, World

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• If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

  Molly Ivins

  Middle East, Firsts, Steps

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• The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

  Chinua Achebe

  Space, Long, People

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• Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Want

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• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

  John Mayer

  Night, Down And, Settling

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• Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

  Rachel Nichols

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Eliot Spitzer

  People, Desire, Challenging The Status Quo

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• People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

  James Taylor

  People, Addiction, Watches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Cities, Mumbai, Settling

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