Settling Quotes - Page 26

• The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

  Bijan

  World, Compromise, Said

  "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.

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• The courts are run on COMMERCIAL CONTRACT LAW and that is has NOTHING to do with any IN-LAW procedures whatsoever. So the nature of the game is to OBTAIN a CONTRACT with your OPPONENT (Adversary) so that the court can acknowledge and RATIFY the contract and SETTLE and CLOSE the case and move on and if you understand that EVERYTHING in there is happening by way of CONTRACTS instead of trying to get the truth out then MAYBE you'll get the truth to prevail by following the CORRECT procedure to get them to acknowledge the truth by CONTRACTUAL CONSENT.

  Jack Smith

  Running, Moving, Law

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• If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

  Phil Angelides

  Next Day, Able, Admission

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• It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Temptation, Groups

  Bill Hybels (2008). “Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs”, p.132, Zondervan

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• In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

  John Carlos

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Dust

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• I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

  Jack Canfield

  Believe, People, Should

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

  Edward Said

  Teaching, Views, Style

  Orientalism introduction (1978)

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• We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

  James Howe

  Hate, Thinking, Perfection

  James Howe (2012). “The Watcher”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, War, Order

  "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Essay by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Political, Politics

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.64, Wildside Press LLC

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• The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.

  Greg Laurie

  Pulpit, Score, Word Of God

  Twitter post from Nov 7, 2013

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• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  Larry McMurtry

  Morning, Horse, Love Is

  "Leaving Cheyenne". Book by Larry McMurtry, 1963.

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• The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Fighting, Moral

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

  Nora Ephron

  Baby, Dust, Different

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.158, Vintage

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• Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.

  Fernand Braudel

  Firefly, Dark, Light

  Fernand Braudel (1995). “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II”, p.901, Univ of California Press

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• Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

  Rachel Vincent

  Firsts, Impossible, Wanted

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.45, MIRA

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• Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

  John Thorn

  Team, Player, Games

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• When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

  Craig Groeschel

  True Identity, Miracle, Never Settle

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• As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

  Abraham Clark

  War, Aggravation, Issues

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• Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Somewhere Else, Understanding

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• It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Mistake, Distance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be isolated. None of us can settle into infancy, youth, middle age, or old age. We all grow older, and, incidentally, it is an exciting thought if the accent is on growing. "Though our outward man perish," said Paul, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16; italics added).

  Hugh W. Pinnock

  Life, Men, Years

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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 find that they come under four headings: love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself; he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.

  Edward S. Jordan

  Love, Crush, Adventure

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