Done Settling Quotes

#1. I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Henry Miller

#2. [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

#3. 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

#4. When I heard what the "B" in LGBTQ stood for, my first feeling was the settling of pieces into order.

Megan Erickson

#5. It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert

#6. When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.

Nick Ortner

#7. For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Brandon Lee

#8. His words crawled under her skin, settling deep into the crevices of her bones. Without

Alex Gino

#9. IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET

Mo Stegall

#10. It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.

Toni Morrison

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

Arthur Balfour

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

#14. 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

#15. The biggest issue is simply settling down which most Mr. Goodbar will be inclined to do by their mid-thirties. By this time the average Mr. Goodbar will have an attitude of "been there, done that," with women and thus be more amenable to a monogamous relationship.

Rom Wills

#16. Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Alice Walker

#17. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.

Howard Schultz

#18. Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.

Jenny McCarthy

#19. ...the coldness settling in his stomach confirmed a truth that had been hiding at the back of his mind. He sat devastated by it, wondering how he could be such a fool. He and Kate were so far apart he might as well be in love with the moon.

M. Ruth Myers

#20. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.

Mark R. Jones

#21. The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

Simon Barnes

#22. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Julia Cameron

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

Jim Rohn

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

Ann Coulter

#25. In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

Michael Kosser

#26. The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.'

Lester Holt

#27. Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.

Jane Austen

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

Harper Lee

#29. Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.

Sherman Alexie

#30. And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.

Ransom Riggs

#31. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived

Rumi

#32. Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one another. Wars between nations have been replaced by civil war. The great settling of accounts, first under national 'pretexts,' led to a rapidly escalating world civil war.

Ernst Junger

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

Bethenny Frankel

#34. Her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.

D.B. Reynolds

#35. She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure.

Nikki Rowe

#36. There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

Jeff Olson

#37. It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.

Sukarno

#38. Lowering my gaze , I walked to my seat, settling in next to Kriss.
"Seriously America?" she whispered.
I tilted my head in her direction. "I'm sorry?" I replied, feigning confusion.
She put her silverware down, and we stared at each other. "You look trashy."
"Well, you look jealous.

Kiera Cass