Settling Quotes - Page 5

• Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
  And silent, settles into full revenge.

  John Tillotson

  Revenge, Anger, Storm

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• My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

  Joanna Baillie

  Fate, Night, Darkness

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• [To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

  Elizabeth I

  Parliament, Duty, Assertiveness

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• Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Morning, Men, Age

  "Iraq-Bound Troops Confront Rumsfeld Over Lack of Armor" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2004.

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• A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Light, Noses, Might

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• In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.

  Rolf Potts

  Order, Choices, Liberty

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• Never settle for the crumbs of life.

  Og Mandino

  Never Settle, Crumbs

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Ambition, Ifs, Deserve

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Thoughtful

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

  Martin Firrell

  Art, World, Whole

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to negotiate in good faith under the UN Charter, and to denounce war agitation particularly by the media.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Mean, Commitment

  "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Mean, Our World, Practice

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• Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

  Joan Bennett Kennedy

  Life, Knowing, Want

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• So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?

  Sue Margolis

  Marriage, Mother, Thinking

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• My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

  Teddy Thompson

  Creativity, Thinking, Space

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• My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.

  Robert M

  Men, Thinking, Views

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• One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.

  Robert M

  Home, Heart, One Day

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• Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

  Alain de Botton

  Mind, Safe, Mental Health

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2015

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• Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

  Robert Boyle

  Beauty, Hurt, Passion

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• There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

  Eve Babitz

  Two, Brain, Tragedy

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.96, New York Review of Books

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• If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Running, Children, Teenager

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books

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• It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Women, Mean

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.287, Penguin

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• Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

  Mark Cuban

  Never Settle, Reason, No Reason

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.45, Diversion Books

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