I Won't Settle For Anything Less Quotes

#1. A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

Martha Graham

#2. Well, I wrote that song for the village, but I wrote this one for the sky.

Rich Mullins

#3. Fate, that bloody, vicious, fickle bitch. Sometimes she loved him, and he could do nothing wrong. And sometimes she stuck a knife in his back.

Ilona Andrews

#4. Could you be happy if you woke up and suddenly you were no one special?

Kami Garcia

#5. Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

Carroll Quigley

#6. People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

Gillian Flynn

#8. Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

Joseph Silk

#9. They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

David Bennun

#10. I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

Jon Fishman

#11. I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening.

Eavan Boland

#12. TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life's mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be.

Molly Friedenfeld

#13. Staring too long at the light of another will blind us from seeing our own.

Charles F. Glassman

#14. most. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. But they won't give me that option. So I'll settle for being with someone who at least doesn't love me as much. I'm thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don't.

Katja Millay

#15. Ryder: "Well, you're not the type I want to be my first either."
Grace:"What?"
Ryder: "You're the type I want to be my last. You know ... the settle down and marry sort. If you're my first, then I won't get to - I don't know - sow any wild oats or anything.

Linda Kage

#16. The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.

Auliq Ice

#17. I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

Stephen Hunter