Settling Down Quotes - Page 4

• After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Boys, Two, Giving

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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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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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it." I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come. His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.

  Alyson Noel

  Letting Go, Fall, Hands

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• 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

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

  Ilona Andrews

  Princess, Firsts, Settling

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.216, Penguin

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• Settle down, pup. I ain’t had my caffeine yet.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pups, Settling, Caffeine

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• Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Night, Snow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dirty, Self, Circles

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• Just because we haven’t met Mr. Right doesn’t mean we’re doing anything wrong. And by the way, you’re brilliant and awesome, too. If I were a lesbian, I’d totally settle down with you and make lots of in vitro babies.

  Julie James

  Baby, Mean, Mr Right

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.108, Penguin

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

  Paul Torday

  Would Be, Down And, Settling

  Paul Torday, Susan Howe (2008). “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Minho was the first one to speak since the food had come. “Maybe we should just give in to those shuckfaces. Do what they want. One day we’ll all sit around, fat and happy.” Thomas knew he didn’t mean a word of it. “Yeah, maybe you can find a nice pretty girl who works here, settle down, get married and have kids. Just in time for the world to end in a sea of lunatics.” Minho kept at it. “WICKED’s going to figure out this blueprint business and we’ll all live happily ever after.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Nice, Kids

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.37, Chicken House

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• I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mom, Dad, Laughing

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.201, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pride, Luxury, Knowing

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• People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

  Tom Robbins

  Space, People, Movement

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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• 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

  Clever, Humility, Pride

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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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• It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Doe, Bitterness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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• She should get a divorce and settle down.

  Jack Paar

  Sarcastic, Divorce, Settling

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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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• I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Ideas, Two

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