I'm Not Settling Quotes

#1. Don't you 'baby' me, you backwoods barbarian. I'm not settling for bringing you pie and beer for the rest of my life. I have plans. They don't include marriage to you.

Virginia Nelson

#2. I want more. I want everything. I want you."
"Nathan ... "
"I'm not settling for less, Whitley," he said. "And neither should you.

Kody Keplinger

#3. No, I'm not settling here. I'm going to keep pressing forward.

Joel Osteen

#4. And I don't recommend murder as a way of settling difficult situations. It tends to lead to complications - but not nearly as many as marriage.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and rickety baby carriages of the rag pickers with soft powdery snow.

Donald O'Donovan

#6. 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

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

Rinku Sen

#8. This Ayden deserves to be happy, regardless of what the future holds, and this Ayden is the one who has to decide why she is settling for milk and cookies when what she really wants is edible body paint and furry handcuffs.

Jay Crownover

#9. 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

#10. The answer was that I had gone through a major transformation the past year and a half, and as I changed myself for the better, better things started coming to me. I was settling for more. And "more" meant more from myself. Doug

Megyn Kelly

#11. It's better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.

Patrick Stevens

#12. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

#13. You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

Seth Godin

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

Leo Tolstoy

#15. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

Rob Liano

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

Richard Ingrams

#17. 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

#18. Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Oscar Wilde

#19. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

Steve Volk

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

Gautama Buddha

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all.

Kristen Ashley

#24. 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.

Aubrey O'Day

#25. Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all

T. S. Eliot

#26. I did not hesitate to quit my courses and leave my apartment, feeling as detached from everything as only at twenty-three one feels, when all is temporary and settling down means to stagnate

Edgar Cantero

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

Michael Franti

#28. 'I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.'

Amy Lane

#29. 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

#30. I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

Alice McDermott

#31. 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

#32. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.

Harry Bingham

#33. I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

Arj Barker

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.

Gloria Steinem

#37. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#38. I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

Sherri Rifkin

#39. I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.

P.D. James

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

Harper Lee

#41. 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

#42. In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

Vanessa Mae

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

Nikki Rowe

#44. 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

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

Bethenny Frankel

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

Sherman Alexie

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Ann Coulter

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

Jim Rohn

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Alex Gino

#60. 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.

David Ricardo

#61. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde

#62. 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

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

Mo Stegall

#68. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Amy Winehouse

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

Brandon Lee

#70. 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

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Megan Erickson

#73. 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

#74. [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

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

Arthur Balfour

#76. 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