Settling Down Quotes - Page 7

• The weird thing is when you're a gay guy my age, I spent so much of my life just thinking I was probably never going to date anyone, so now just thinking, "all right, settle down and have a child" seems ridiculous to me.

  Guy Branum

  Children, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set.

  Michael Jackson

  Cute, Real, Snow

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• I feel most vulnerable when I am underprepared - for instance, if I have an audition and haven't worked through the material enough beforehand. Also, if I am running late, I feel completely vulnerable because I am usually the person who is early to everything so that I can settle down and breathe before jumping in to the task at hand.

  Renee Marino

  Running, Jumping, Hands

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Hands, Guy

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• Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

  Jack London

  Heartbroken, Stupid, Love Life

  Jack London (2015). “The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature”, p.111, 谷月社

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• 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

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I mean, everyone has to calm down sometime. I'll still smoke up and party, but yeah, eventually you gotta settle down and be an adult. But still have fun. Demi's helped me sort of like, understand that down the road it'll just happen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fun, Party, Mean

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• The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

  James, son of Zebedee

  Men, Creative, Artistic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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

  Focus, Training, Done

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.

  Kenneth Clark

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 1), 1969.

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• A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

  Pam Brown

  Hope, Cat, Knees

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• Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Inspirational, Marriage, Men

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happiness, Happy, Littles

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Thinking, Guy

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. "Salutations!" said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried. "Salutations!" repeated the voice. "What are they, and where are you?" screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?" "Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Night, Naps

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• I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security... Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Self, Lds

  Brigham Young's remarks in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City (January 12, 1862), as quoted in "Journal of Discourses" by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Volume 9, p. 150), 1862.

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• 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

  Country, Fashion, Home

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

  Bessie Smith

  Women, Black History, Done

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• So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Beer, Eight

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• Settle down, it'll all be clear
  Don't pay no mind to the demons
  They fill you with fear
  The trouble it might drag you down
  If you get lost, you can always be found
  Just know you're not alone
  Cause I'm going to make this place your home

  Phillip Phillips

  Home, Mind, Might

  Song: Home

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• For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Loss, Choices

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• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

  Jon Krakauer

  Travel, Moving, New Horizons

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  Ernest Newman

  Jobs, Work, Inspiration

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• When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Sexy, Husband

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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