Settling Quotes - Page 4

• The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rivers, Heaven

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.166

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• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Drama, Decision

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• The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

  Northrop Frye

  Mind, Atheism, Taught

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.475, University of Toronto Press

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• I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, Government

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• Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.

  Tony Gaskins

  Successful, Men, Wife

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.

  John Assaraf

  Mind, Changing Your Life, Reason

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jun 03, 2014

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• Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

  Michael Winner

  Women, Stupid, Pigs

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• When you honor God, the storms may come, but you have a promise that others don’t have: When it’s all said and done, you’ll still be standing. You may suffer a setback, but don’t get discouraged. If you’ll stay in faith, God promises that when the smoke clears, when the dust settles, you won’t be the victim, you’ll be the victor.

  Joel Osteen

  Dust, Honor, Promise

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• Christians actually need to be confronted by their real need-an understanding of God's holiness and their own sinfulness-so they can be usable to Him for His Glory. When we have a right relationship to God, every aspect of our lives will settle into its divinely ordained place. ... We are still to need other needs but it begins with a high view of God.

  John F. MacArthur

  Christian, Real, Views

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• The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
  [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

  Horace

  Illustration, Difficulty, Solve

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• If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Beautiful, Truth, Leaving

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.83, London : Daldy, Isbister

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• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Minorities

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press

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• A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Giving, Return

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
  [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

  George Herbert

  Sea, Land, Sail

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• One thought settles a life, an immortality.

  Philip James Bailey

  Immortality

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.19

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• I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Struggle, Long

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Omnipotence, Heaven, Mind

  John Ruskin (1834). “Modern Painters”, p.324

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• An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

  Rebecca West

  Simple, Feet, Orange

  Rebecca West (1982). “Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Wife, Ignorant

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• About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.

  Rachel Martin

  Half, Canada, Becoming

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Blood, Silence

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• Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Lying, Past, Circles

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Trying, Lasts, Wit

  Elsa Maxwell (1957). “How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining”

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• In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.

  Horace Bushnell

  Order, Law, Degrees

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• The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

  Deborah Tannen

  Party, Thinking, Ideas

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