Settling Quotes - Page 33

• My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Gambling, Luck, Meals

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.

  Amanda Bynes

  Ideas, Bored, Forever

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• The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Character, Men, Stories

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• We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.

  John Churton Collins

  Responsibility, Evil, Bird

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• The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

  Janet Frame

  Home, World, Able

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Ideas, Haunting, Becoming

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• Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Giving Up, Mean

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• I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Swans, Space

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6729, Delphi Classics

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• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moon, Simple

  "Paradise (to Be) Regained" (1843)

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• In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Elude Us, Years, Doubt

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• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  Hale Irwin

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history". Interview with Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Rights, Democracy, Election

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• Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

  Hank Azaria

  Laughing, Guy, Lists

  "One-Man Show: Hank Azaria". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  Harry Anderson

  Magic, Cards, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.

  Russ Carnahan

  Country, Spring, Home

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

  Stafford Cripps

  Mean, Government, Differences

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• But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  World, Matter, Way

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.64, Princeton University Press

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• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  Adam Gopnik

  Stars, Rocks, Add

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• I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

  Cindy Gallop

  Attractive, Older Women, Wanted

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• It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

  Douglas Booth

  Journey, Thinking, Ends

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

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• I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Girlfriend, Mind, Lasts

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

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Literature

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• I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

  Rupert Everett

  Ties, Way, Tie Dye

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• Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Hands, Grind

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