Settling Quotes:

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: People, Political, Settling

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

- Adriana Trigiani

source: Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Boys, Excellence, Settling, Should I

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

- Albert Camus

topic: Running, Ugly, Settling, Settling Down

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

topic: Want, Settling

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

- Andre Breton

topic: Love You, Issues, Settling, Love You So Much, I Love You So Much

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

- Anne Fadiman

source: Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.113, Macmillan

topic: Book, Water, Settling

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

- Arthur Balfour

topic: Christian, Together, Settling

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: World, Settling, Ends, Moriarty

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Cities, Mumbai, Settling

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

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Pay, Crime, Settling

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

- Bijan

source: "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.

topic: World, Compromise, Settling, My Own World

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

- Bob Goff

topic: Safe, Sacred, Settling

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

- Boris Kodjoe

topic: Children, Purpose, Settling

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

- Brandon Lee

topic: Mediocrity, Levels, Settling

Never settle for anything less than your best.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Never Settle, Settling, Doing Your Best, Will To Win, Settling In

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

- Bruce Feirstein

source: Bruce Feirstein, Lionel Trippett (1982). “Real Men Don't Eat Quiche”, New English Library

topic: Flames, Never Settle, Settling, Throwers

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

topic: Inspirational, Fighting, Settling

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

- Cindy Gallop

topic: Settling, Attractive, Older Women, Settling Down

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

- Claude Monet

topic: Ideas, Brain, Settling, Incubation

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.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: People, Care, Settling

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

- Dave Mustaine

topic: Guitar, Bridges, Settling

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

- David Ginola

topic: Settling, Found, Flats, Settling Down

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 

- David Platt

topic: Jesus, Settling, Obedience, Jesus Words, Biggest Fear

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

- David Platt

topic: Messages, Christianity, Settling, Catering

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

- David Weber

source: David Weber, Eric Flint (2003). “Crown of Slaves”, p.261, Baen Books

topic: Son, Voice, Settling

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

- Dean Dillon

topic: Writing, Influence, Settling, Great Influence

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

- Debbi Fields

topic: Mediocrity, Wonder, Settling

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

- Dominic West

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

topic: Down And, Forget, Settling, Settling Down

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Money, Healthy, Settling

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

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

topic: Journey, Thinking, Settling

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Giving, Settling, Scene, Lemons, Lemonade

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

- Elsa Maxwell

topic: Trying, Lasts, Settling

I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Average, Want, Settling

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: War, Never Settle, Settling

It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.

- Ferdinand Christian Baur

topic: Jesus, Two, Settling, Two Religions

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

- Gabrielle Roth

source: Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.195, New World Library

topic: Be Who You Are, Alive, Settling

Violence never settles anything.

- Genghis Khan

topic: Never Settle, Violence, Settling

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

- Heather Locklear

source: "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Men, Red Lipstick, Settling, Red Lips, Lipstick

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.

- Henry Adams

topic: Women, Moral, Settling, Very Positive

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.

- Henry Paulson

topic: Important, Typical, Settling

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

- Horace

topic: Illustration, Settling, Difficulty

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

- Imelda Marcos

topic: Looks, Faces, Settling

You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

- Jack Gantos

source: Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.153, Macmillan

topic: Heart, Kids, Settling, Joey

She should get a divorce and settle down.

- Jack Paar

topic: Sarcastic, Divorce, Settling

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

- Janis Joplin

source: "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.

topic: Settling

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

- Janis Joplin

topic: Mad, Bullshit, Settling, Not Settling

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

- Jeremiah

topic: Garden, House, Settling

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

- John Mayer

topic: Night, Down And, Settling

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

- John Ortberg

topic: Faith, Settling, Danger

Out here a man settles his own problems.

- John Wayne

topic: Men, Problem, Settling

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

- Jojo Moyes

topic: Push Yourself, Settling, Just Live

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point

- Josh Lucas

topic: Choices, Settling, Made, Settling In

I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.

- Josie Natori

topic: Never Good Enough, Settling, Decor

Just like dust, we settle in this town.

- Kacey Musgraves

source: Song: Merry Go 'Round, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013

topic: Dust, Towns, Settling

I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.

- Katharine McPhee

topic: Want, Settling, Persons

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

- Kathie Lee Gifford

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

topic: Ambition, Settling, Deserve

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Pain, Water, Settling, Avoiding Pain

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

- Kevin Eikenberry

source: Kevin Eikenberry (2011). “Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Self, Leader, Settling, Deep Down

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

- Kevin Hart

topic: Differences, Settling

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

- Kurt Hahn

topic: Learning, Vision, Settling, Unwilling

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

- Kurt Hahn

topic: Inspiration, May, Settling

When you are looking to meet someone, you are looking to settle. Becaue you are not looking for someone, you are looking for anyone

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Settling

When you're looking to meet someone...you're looking to settle...

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Settling

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

- Leila Aboulela

source: Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Modern, Settling, Modern Times

If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less.

- Lil Wayne

topic: Leaving, Settling

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

- Macy Gray

topic: Stars, Rocks, Settling

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Never Settle, Settling, Reason, No Reason

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

- Martin Firrell

source: "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.

topic: Art, World, Settling, Art World

Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for

- Maureen Dowd

topic: Want, Way, Settling, Deserve You

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Rewards, Settling, Broke

I'm in love with God and God's in love with me, this is who I am and this is who I'll be and that settles it. Completely.

- Misty Edwards

topic: Who I Am, God Love, Settling

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Teenager, School, Settling, Extracurricular Activities

I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.

- Nancy Johnson

topic: Hard Times, Age, Settling, Dilettantes

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

- Paolo Giordano

source: Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.313, Random House

topic: Love, Return, Settling

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

- Paul Lieberstein

topic: Office, Settling

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

- Paul Torday

source: Paul Torday, Susan Howe (2008). “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Down And, Would Be, Settling

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

- Peter Steele

topic: Littles, Settling, Ready, Ready To Settle Down

If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

- Phil Angelides

topic: Able, Next, Settling

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

- Philip James Bailey

topic: Immortality, Settling

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

- Poppy Montgomery

topic: Down And, Want, Settling, Settling Down

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

- Rachel Vincent

topic: Firsts, Impossible, Settling

The mind is like dishwater, my friend.  When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see.  But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

- Randall Duk Kim

topic: Mind, Answers, Settling, Kung Fu Panda

If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

- Richard Ingrams

topic: Lawyer, Settling, Cases

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Dinner, Settling, Persons, Dinner And A Movie

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

- Russell L. Ackoff

source: Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.4, Triarchy Press Limited

topic: Want, Settling

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

- Sally Edwards

topic: Food, Junk, Settling, Raw Food, Junk Food

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

- Serge Lang

source: Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Behavior, Settling, Approach

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

- Seth Godin

topic: Choices, Mediocrity, Settling

The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

- Seth Godin

topic: Winning, Average, Settling

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

- Seth Godin

topic: Differences, Settling, Bigs, Not Settling

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

- Seth Godin

topic: Entrepreneur, World, Settling, Social Media Marketing

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you daven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Business, Way, Settling

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Solitude, Settling

It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.

- The Miz

source: "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

topic: Settling, Willing

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

source: "Southey's Colloquies on Society" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

topic: Men, Liberty, Settling

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

- Tilopa

source: "Zen and Reality". Book by Robert Powell, p. 72, 1975.

topic: Reflection, Analysis, Settling, Zen Life, Zen Proverb

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

- Tom Cruise

topic: Mean, Settling, Disputes, Settling In

Don't settle for less than is possible.

- Tom Peters

topic: Settling

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

- Truman Capote

topic: Alcohol, Doe, Settling, Champagne Drinking, Drawbacks

When you stop hoping you start settling.

- Valorie Burton

source: FaceBook post by Valorie Burton from Feb 25, 2015

topic: Settling, Stop Hoping

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Settling, Amazement, Not Settling

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

- Wilfred Funk

source: Wilfred Funk (1974). “Words of Power”

topic: War, Failing, Settling

Free as a bird to settle where I will.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Bird, Settling

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

- Zoe Saldana

topic: Want, Roles, Settling

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

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

topic: Demand, Settling, Natural

Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.

- Alma Luz Villanueva

topic: Desire, Settling, Objects

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

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Soul, Gold, Settling, Settling Down

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

- H. Lee Scott, Jr.

source: "Wal-Mart Strikes Back". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2005.

topic: Errors, Cost, Settling

When Johnny came to Baltimore the same time I came we were rookies. He did have some pro experience. He did go with the Pittsburgh Steelers and they cut him. I had no pro experience. My thing was that hey I got to make this team. Johnny Unitas wasn't Johnny Unitas.He was just like every other quarterback. You couldn't see the things we know that evolved out of that years later. As the years went on I could really start to see him settle in that position. Fortunately for Johnny U., Weeb Ewbank was there and he worked with his quarterbacks. He had them knowing every aspect of the game.

- Lenny Moore

source: Source: www.cyinterview.com

topic: Team, Cutting, Settling

Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.

- Alex Gonzaga

topic: Waiting, Settling, Trade

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

- Michael Howard

topic: Victory, Settling, Blair

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

- Chase Utley

topic: Fun, Needs, Settling, Settling Down

I don't settle. That's how I am.

- Pau Gasol

topic: Settling

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

- Chris Evans

topic: Want, Youth, Settling, Settling Down

Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.

- Christina Grimmie

source: Source: glittermagrocks.com

topic: Peers, Jerk, Settling, Be Respectful

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

topic: Eagles, Shooting, Settling, Settling In

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.

- Dale Peck

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Two, Giving, Settling, Settling Down

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

- Raymond Aron

source: 1971 Politics and History.

topic: Way, Settling, Marxist

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

- Reggie Jackson

topic: Never Settle, Realizing, Settling

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

- Richard Cecil

source: Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.414

topic: Settling, Easier

Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

- Rinku Sen

source: "An Open Letter to Starbucks and ‘USA Today’" by Rinku Sen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.

topic: Lasting Change, Information, Settling

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

- Roland Barthes

topic: Forget, Settling, Vacant

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

- Roy Keane

source: "Roy Keane: a history of speaking out", www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2002.

topic: Settling, Enough, Valuation

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

- Houston Alexander

source: Source: www.sbnation.com

topic: Winning, Goal, Settling

When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.

- Ibn Rajab

topic: Heart, Settling, Obedience

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

- Stewart Lee

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Dust, Waiting, Settling

Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.

- Jill Davis

source: Jill A. Davis (2003). “Girls' Poker Night: A Novel of High Stakes”, p.6, Random House

topic: Want, Imagine, Settling

Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?

- William Rainey Harper

topic: Christian, Doubt, Settling

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

- Luis Suarez

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Dream, Settling, Wanted

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

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.296, Courier Corporation

topic: Important, Settling, Settling Down, Important Questions

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Coffee, Spirit, Settling

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

- Paul Auster

source: "An Interview with Paul Auster" by Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

topic: Steps, Hospitality, Settling

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Fantasy, Bumper Sticker, Settling

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

- Paul Schrader

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Settling, Viewers, Get Ahead

Love what you do...Don't settle

- Steve Jobs

topic: Settling

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Success, Hurt, Settling

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

- Lorrie Moore

source: Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.81, Faber & Faber

topic: Second Best, Settling

Never settle for second when first is available

- Lou Holtz

topic: Never Settle, Firsts, Settling

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

source: "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich von Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

topic: People, Assuming, Settling, Road To Serfdom

I want love and I won't settle for less

- Sylvia Day

source: Sylvia Day (2014). “The Stranger I Married”, p.231, Kensington Books

topic: Want, Settling

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Needs, Chance, Settling

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.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Desert, Settling, Ifs

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2004). “Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel”, p.88, Random House

topic: Healing, Done, Settling

Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Realizing, Settling, Dhammapada

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

- Confucius

topic: Settling, Hundred, Difficulty

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

- Gayle Forman

topic: Settling, Increase, Harder

Never settle for anything less than you want.

- PJ Harvey

topic: Never Settle, Want, Settling

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sometimes, Settling, Best Things

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.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Soul, World, Settling

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Money, Men, Settling

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

- Poul Anderson

source: Poul Anderson (2015). “Fire Time”, p.27, Open Road Media

topic: Drunk, Serious Business, Settling, Getting Drunk

Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Parent, Settling, Can Do

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

- George Herbert

topic: Sea, Land, Settling

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

- Andre Gide

topic: Arms, Able, Settling, Restlessness

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

- Andy Borowitz

source: FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 26, 2012

topic: Slavery, Action, Settling

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Looks, Settling, Persons, Settling Down

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Never Settle, Needs, Settling

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

- Ann Coulter

source: "Lethally blonde" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.

topic: President, Purpose, Settling

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.

- Dave Grohl

source: "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

topic: Tape, Settling, Manipulate

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.103, Penguin

topic: Heart, Mind, Settling

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

- Reggie Watts

topic: Patterns, Behavior, Settling, Behavior Patterns

If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

- John Ortberg

source: John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.34, Harper Collins

topic: Different, Needs, Settling

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

- Ari Fleischer

source: Twitter post from Sep 11, 2014

topic: Dust, Settling, Things To Do

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.

- Greg Laurie

source: Twitter post from Nov 7, 2013

topic: Settling, Pulpit, Score

You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.

- Tony La Russa

source: "Top of the sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. December 29, 1997.

topic: Stupid, Settling, Idiotic, Being Stupid

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

- Tony Robbins

topic: Settling, Standards, Satisfied

Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Enthusiasm, Settling, Enthusiastic

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Pain, Littles, Settling, Total Happiness, Happiness Now

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Conflict, Settling, Bloodshed, Internal Conflict

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Giving, Settling

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

- Halle Berry

source: "Halle Berry Is Back on the Market for Mr. Right" by Alison Schwartz, people.com. August 12, 2010.

topic: Done, Settling, Refuse, Done With Love

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

- Harper Lee

source: Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

topic: Ocean, Talking, Settling

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

- Diana Wynne Jones

topic: World, Firsts, Settling

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

- Michael B. Jordan

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Jobs, Homework, Settling

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: Twitter post from Jan 02, 2014

topic: Want, Easy, Settling, Purposefulness

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

- Juan Manuel Santos

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Years, Conflict, Settling

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

- Michael Franti

source: "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Important, Needs, Settling

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

- Michael Franti

source: "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thinking, Settling

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

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Destiny, America, Settling

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.224, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Country, Important, Settling, Good Breeding

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

- Robin Sharma

topic: Average, Excellence, Settling

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

- Michael Schur

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Ideas, Settling, Plans

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

- Warren Beatty

topic: Settling

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Passion, Lucky, Settling

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

- Bethenny Frankel

topic: Love You, What You Deserve, Settling

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.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre or The Ambiguities”, p.277, Herman Melville

topic: Love, Cities, Settling, Metropolitan

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!

- Drew Barrymore

source: "ELLE's August cover girl on her latest film, her new outlook, and refusing to settle". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

topic: Choices, Wrong Person, Settling

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.751, Dell

topic: Men, Failing, Settling

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

- Karl Kraus

source: BeimWort Genommen (1909) (translation by Harry Zohn)

topic: Shoes, Sun, Settling, Fetish

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.

- Bill Murray

topic: House, Settling, Caution

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

- Horace

source: "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

topic: Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule

Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Dream, Bystanders, Settling, Keep Dreaming

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: People, Settling, Enough

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

- Ian Hacking

source: Ian Hacking (2001). “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

topic: Doing Nothing, Settling, Cases

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

- William Osler

source: William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.254, Ravenio Books

topic: Trying, Care, Settling, Settling Down

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

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.216, Penguin

topic: Princess, Firsts, Settling

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

- Kid Rock

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Love You, Want, Settling

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

topic: Mistake, Trying, Settling

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.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.345, A&C Black

topic: Choices, Decision, Settling

[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

topic: Settling, Parliament, Duty, Assertiveness