Settle Down Quotes

#1. A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ...

Evelyn Waugh

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

Ann Coulter

#3. A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

Catherine Booth

#4. People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor

#5. Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It's when you can't settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that ... it's a compulsion. It's the difference between lust and love.

Kirsten Hubbard

#6. I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining.

Scott Patterson

#7. Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.

Sophie Monk

#8. You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.

Liam Tancock

#9. He wanted me to come home
to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond.

James Baldwin

#10. It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

Kiki Dee

#11. You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown.

Demi Lovato

#12. No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Bessie Smith

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

Arthur Balfour

#14. Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

Stephen Lang

#15. You never meant me to be the guy you'd settle down with. Not the safe guy you'd love, but the dangerous one who makes your pulse race.

Renee Rose

#16. 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

#17. If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.

Mariella Frostrup

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

John Mayer

#19. It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on.

K.J. Parker

#20. In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

Gene Tunney

#21. Rocky shook his head. "The dude is a closet case. I saw it. He wants it, but he's never had it. His gayginity is intact. And I mean it. Never again. I'm going to find a nice homo and settle down.

Brad Vance

#22. When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.

Stella McCartney

#23. Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..

Geoffrey Hill

#24. Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.

Earl Nightingale

#25. Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

Colm Toibin

#26. Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

J.B. Priestley

#27. I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

Frans De Waal

#28. Before my fingers curl around the handle of the blind, Seth whips across, grabbing my wrist. I gasp as he pulls my hand away from it.
"Settle down, daredevil." He chuckles. "You might want to conquer your fears, but I'm fine hiding from mine.

Skyla Madi

#29. 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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Charles Dickens

#32. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.

Sofia Grey

#33. I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

Robert Charles Wilson

#34. Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

Eliot Spitzer

#35. Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.

John Eldredge

#36. What a sad thought it is, that some of us will surrender and settle down long before we have met the person we are supposed to love.

Beau Taplin

#37. I have too much homework to watch M*A*S*H yet, so I settle down at the kitchen table and I face it.

A.S. King

#38. Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

Scott Turow

#39. Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Janis Joplin

#40. The mind-reaction was beginning to settle in, slowing down his chain of thought by seeming to increase the connotations of every idea and every bit of sensory input.

Stephen King

#41. I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Doug Martsch

#42. With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle down and get on with it, and a year later I have my book in my hand.

Michael Morpurgo

#43. The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

Felicity Kendal

#44. A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

Kage Baker

#45. You're causing the world to spin again, Keirah," Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. "You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked.

Madison Thorne Grey

#46. Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.

Joey Comeau

#47. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.

Lili Wright

#48. Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

Mary Lee Settle

#49. I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

Rupert Everett

#50. I wanted to be in love with her. I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down.

Daniel Keyes

#51. If I had my way ... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down ... You can see it in their eyes ...

Hugh Lofting

#52. Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

Rachel Nichols

#53. If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#54. A long time ago when cataclysms were common
as sneezes and land masses slid
around the globe looking for places
to settle down and become continents,
someone introduced us at a party.

Billy Collins

#55. Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#56. Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

C.S. Lewis

#57. Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be.

Jen Wang

#58. In a world hooked in "Start-ups"
She was his final "Settle-down"

-The Drenched Writer

Shonali Dey

#59. To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.

Ellen Stofan

#60. I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

Todd Rundgren

#61. Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.

Tony Gaskins

#62. And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.

Anne Enright

#63. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.

Mandy Hale

#64. Our minds are like a hotel. The manager can't keep people from coming into the lobby, but he can keep them from getting a room. It is the same with our thoughts. It is not a sin when an impure thought goes through our minds. The sin comes when we give it a room and let it settle down there.

O. S. Hawkins

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

Paul Torday

#66. That's how we both got committed to this enormous delusion - because that's what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion - this idea that people have to resign from real life and 'settle down' when they have families.

Richard Yates

#67. Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Ruby Wax

#68. 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

#69. To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

Bruce Lee

#70. You'll grow up soon. I can't wait to see the girl who makes the player settle down. Damn, you're in for a serious shock when you meet the girl who turns your head. You won't know what's hit you; it's gonna be hilarious to watch.

Kirsty Moseley

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

Ashwin Sanghi

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

Poppy Montgomery

#73. I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

Elaine Stritch

#74. 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

#75. Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

John Gierach

#76. I don't settle down. I don't follow any path.
Because I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!

Avijeet Das

#77. If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Molly Ivins

#78. It's better this way anyways. I probably need to find someone to settle down with. It's about that time. Have the two point five kids, fake orgasms, and wallow in a stagnant career.

Rachel Robinson

#79. I guess you gotta try the rest before you settle down with the best.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#80. It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Jim Carrey

#81. As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

Ole Hallesby

#82. 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

#83. Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

Chris Rock

#84. So you really meant what you said to me yesterday?" Her voice rose. "I should find myself a nice wolf and settle down?"
He fought off the rising incursions of dissonance, the razor blades sliding through his brain stem and traveling down his spine. "That would be rushing things.

Nalini Singh

#85. I could settle down here in Gangrene Valley. I could learn how to do woman's work. We could have all the babies. Side note, I hope they get his beard and my forearms.

Penny Reid

#86. Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

Garrison Keillor

#87. Settle down, Maverick, this isn't the danger zone.

Eden Summers

#88. You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#89. I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below.

Carolyn Kizer

#90. Just those of us with sisters-in-laws who bounce off walls. I feel like I am watching a Ping-Pong ball. Settle down.

Christine Feehan

#91. Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#92. As tiny silver flakes drifted down to settle on our bodies
Both the living and the dead
I thought perhaps the moon had hidden her face from us, as full of sorrow as we were. But she couldn't stop her tears from spilling out in the form of silent snow.

Andrea Cremer

#93. Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Dalai Lama

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

Peter Steele

#95. Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.

Cat Stevens

#96. Never stop and never settle but settle down for the one who lets you draw cities on their skin with the tips of your fingers.

Pleasefindthis

#97. We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

Amy Carmichael

#98. There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.

Marion Bartoli

#99. Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fine".

Brad Warner

#100. The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

Alexis Wright