Settling Down Quotes - Page 3

• The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

  Augustus John

  Buttons, Arriving, Failing

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• So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?

  Sue Margolis

  Marriage, Mother, Thinking

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• 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

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

  L. Neil Smith

  Fighting, Hunting, Government

  "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.

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• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Dark, Thinking, Kitchen

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

  Jeremiah

  Garden, House, Settling

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• 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

  Fun, Roles, Down And

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• Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

  Teddy Thompson

  Creativity, Thinking, Space

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• Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Morning, Men, Age

  "Iraq-Bound Troops Confront Rumsfeld Over Lack of Armor" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2004.

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• Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Lying, Past, Circles

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Drama, Decision

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• Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

  Pia Zadora

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

  Cindy Gallop

  Settling, Attractive, Older Women

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• Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

  Austin O'Malley

  Soul, Gold, Settling

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• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  Norman Tebbit

  Views, Paper, November

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• Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Real, Lying

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.123, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• 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

  People, Desire, Challenging The Status Quo

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• 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

  Summer, Sunset, Sunday

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• She should get a divorce and settle down.

  Jack Paar

  Sarcastic, Divorce, Settling

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• 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

  Thinking, Long, Bells

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• 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

  Prayer, Fall, Winter

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• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Strong, Adventure, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Demi Lovato

  Running, Children, Heart

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• Tell you what," I said. "After the testing after the Demon Days, when things settle down -" "Things won't settle down." "- I'm going to take you to the mall." She blinked. "The mall? For what reason?" "To hang out," I said. "We'll get some hamburgers. See a movie." Zia hesitated. "Is this what you'd call a 'date'?" My expression must have been priceless, because Zia actually cracked a smile. "You look like a cow hit with a shovel.

  Rick Riordan

  Expression, Looks, Hamburgers

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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