Settling Quotes - Page 13

• I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Travel, Mean

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• Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

  Mario Batali

  Eye, Land, Trying

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• I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

  Halle Berry

  Done, Refuse, Done With Love

  "Halle Berry Is Back on the Market for Mr. Right" by Alison Schwartz, people.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

  Danny Boyle

  Imagination, Hatred, Majority

  "IGN Interviews Danny Boyle". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

  Pam Brown

  Hope, Cat, Knees

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• It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

  Jim Carrey

  Ideas, Making Love, Down And

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• For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

  Evan Davis

  Country, School, Needs

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• I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

  Howard Dean

  Two, Evil, May

  "Source: Clark to endorse Kerry". www.cnn.com. February 13, 2004.

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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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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

  Morgan Freeman

  Teenager, School, Theater

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• If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Scene, Lemonade

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• If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Assuming, Economy

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich von Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.

  Martin Heinrich

  America, Energy, Second Best

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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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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• 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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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Victory

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

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• Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

  Rose Kennedy

  Good Morning, Marriage, Good Night

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• My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

  Lee Krasner

  Depression, Depressing, Consistency

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams

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• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  Karl Kraus

  Shoes, Sun, Fetish

  BeimWort Genommen (1909) (translation by Harry Zohn)

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• Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Giving

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• The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

  Alex Lifeson

  Thinking, Littles, Changing Your Life

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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, Call Me

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

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• Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Style, Substance

  "Bibi, Moses, and Churchill" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2015.

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