Settling Quotes - Page 8

• I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Hands, Two

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

  J. Stalin

  War, Law, Phases

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.

  Liam Tancock

  Focus, Training, Done

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That's occasionally what happens. What more often happens is that we settle on some sort of - a few sort of structural ideas, like, "Okay, when I put my finger up, we're all going to move to the extremes of our instruments. So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we're going to stay there until I take my finger down.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Mean, Play

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

  James, son of Zebedee

  Men, Creative, Artistic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I started to get older and I thought, "Well, you know now I'm kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give to children now." Because I feel like I've done everything that I wanted to do in my entire life.

  Aleta St. James

  Children, Giving, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

  Peter Scott

  Eagles, Shooting, Danger

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• Settle your quarrels, come together,
  understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is
  already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that
  generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to
  act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in
  revolution.

  George Jackson

  Love, Failure, Reality

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press

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• A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

  John McPhee

  Horse, Thinking, Opposites

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• The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Class, Matter

  Harrison, Benjamin (1901). “Views of an ex-president”, p.336, Best Books on

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• Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

  Christopher Morley

  Decision, Choices, Finding Yourself

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

  Alex Campbell

  Spiritual, Numbers, Rural Areas

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• In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, May, Paper

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• Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Mean, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set.

  Michael Jackson

  Cute, Real, Snow

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

  Warren Beatty

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• There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Demand, Natural, Dead Ends

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

  Tony Robbins

  Standards, Satisfied

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• Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness.

  David Paul

  Cities, Feet, Looks

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• A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.

  Jessa Crispin

  Appreciation, Intelligent, Men

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• Settle for nothing
  less than the
  object of your
  desire.

  Alma Luz Villanueva

  Desire, Objects

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• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

  Stella Blum

  War, World, Moments

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• Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.

  Joe Pesci

  Girl, Mom, Morning

  "Fictional character: Tommy DeVito". "Goodfellas", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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