Settling Quotes

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Settle down, pup. I ain’t had my caffeine yet.” – Sundown

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.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not... not settle for it and only it.

As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want-take it or leave it.'

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

I've always enjoyed doing a huge variety of roles, which I think helps, instead of settling for the things I might be most comfortable with.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our destiny.

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.

If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

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

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don’t settle for less.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

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

My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.

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

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

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.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.