Settling famous 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

#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

#Boys #Excellence #Settling

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

#Running #Ugly #Settling

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

#Waiting #Settling #Trade

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

#Want #Settling

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

#Love You #Issues #Settling

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

#Book #Water #Settling

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

#Christian #Together #Settling

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#World #Settling #Ends

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

#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

#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

#World #Compromise #Settling

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness
-- Bo

#Greatness #People #Settling

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

#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

#Children #Purpose #Settling

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?
-- Brandon Lee

#Mediocrity #Levels #Settling

Never settle for anything less than your best.
-- Brian Tracy

#Never Settle #Settling #Doing Your Best

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

#Flames #Never Settle #Settling

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Inspirational #Fighting #Settling

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

#Settling #Attractive #Older Women

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

#Ideas #Brain #Settling

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

#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

#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

#Settling #Found #Flats

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

#Jesus #Settling #Obedience

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

#Messages #Christianity #Settling

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

#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

#Writing #Influence #Settling

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

#Mediocrity #Wonder #Settling

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

#Down And #Forget #Settling

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

#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

#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

#Giving #Settling #Scene

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

#Trying #Lasts #Settling

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

#Average #Want #Settling

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#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

#Jesus #Two #Settling

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

#Be Who You Are #Alive #Settling

Violence never settles anything.
-- Genghis Khan

#Never Settle #Violence #Settling

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don’t settle for less.
-- Greg Behrendt

#Remember #Settling #Please

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

#Settling #Pulpit #Score

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

#Men #Red Lipstick #Settling

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

#Women #Moral #Settling

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

#Important #Typical #Settling

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

#Illustration #Settling #Difficulty

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

#Princess #Firsts #Settling

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

#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

#Heart #Kids #Settling

She should get a divorce and settle down.
-- Jack Paar

#Sarcastic #Divorce #Settling

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
-- Janis Joplin

#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

#Mad #Bullshit #Settling

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

#Garden #House #Settling

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

#Parent #Settling

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

#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

#Faith #Settling #Danger

Out here a man settles his own problems.
-- John Wayne

#Men #Problem #Settling

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
-- Jojo Moyes

#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

#Choices #Settling #Made

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

#Never Good Enough #Settling #Decor

Just like dust, we settle in this town.
-- Kacey Musgraves

#Dust #Towns #Settling

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

#Want #Settling #Persons

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford

#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

#Pain #Water #Settling

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

#Self #Leader #Settling

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

#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

#Learning #Vision #Settling

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

#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

#Settling

When you're looking to meet someone...you're looking to settle...
-- Lauren Conrad

#Settling

I must settle for freedom in this modern time
-- Leila Aboulela

#Modern #Settling

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

#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

#Stars #Rocks #Settling

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.
-- Mark Cuban

#Never Settle #Settling #Reason

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

#Art #World #Settling

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

#Want #Way #Settling

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

#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

#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

#Teenager #School #Settling

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

#Hard Times #Age #Settling

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

#Love #Return #Settling

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

#Office #Settling

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

#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

#Littles #Settling #Ready

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

#Able #Next #Settling

One thought settles a life, an immortality.
-- Philip James Bailey

#Immortality #Settling

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

#Down And #Want #Settling

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

#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

#Mind #Answers #Settling

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

#Lawyer #Settling #Cases

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

#Dinner #Settling #Persons

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

#Want #Settling

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

#Food #Junk #Settling

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

#Behavior #Settling #Approach

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

#Choices #Mediocrity #Settling

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

#Winning #Average #Settling

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

#Differences #Settling #Bigs

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

#Entrepreneur #World #Settling

Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.
-- Stephen Mansfield

#Regret #Men #Settling

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

#Business #Way #Settling

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
-- Teresa of Avila

#Solitude #Settling