Settling Quotes - Page 18

• Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Long, Despair, Goes On

  "Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve" by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Paris: Charpentier, p. 16 ("Vie de Joseph Delorme"), 1840.

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• You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

  Julian Smith

  Struggle, Fighting, Champion

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• 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

  Jealous, My Boyfriend, Chicago

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• Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

  William Glasser

  Strong, Pain, Giving Up

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• North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Morning, Clothes

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• Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Writing, Long, People

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin

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• Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.

  Philip Gulley

  Pain, Lunch, Alarms

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.127, Zondervan

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• Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Prayer, Home, Thinking

  "There Are Two Flavors of God People". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.beliefnet.com. June 2004.

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.

  Toni Morrison

  Commitment, Justice, Not Good Enough

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2011

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• Don't settle for less than is possible.

  Tom Peters

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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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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will settle for. And, she knows your true capacity as a full man, a man of free consciousness and love. Her gift, if she is a good woman, is to test you with her darkest moods, over and over and over, until your consciousness is unperturbed by feminine challenge, and you are able to pervade her with your love, just as you are here to pervade the world. In response to your fearless consciousness, she will drench your world in love and light.

  David Deida

  Giving Up, Men, Light

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Dubai, Never Settle, Firsts

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• God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiving, Trying, And Love

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• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

  Nick Harkaway

  Wine, Sunshine, Dark

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• Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

  Gail Caldwell

  Dog, Sight, Years

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.177, Random House

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• I’m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are all magical, and we all have something as specific to do as our fingerprint. And everybody should go out and do that. And I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don’t worry about getting married, don’t worry about settling down, don’t worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Baby, Thinking, Talking

  "'The City' boss Kelly Cutrone shares advice she gave Whitney Port" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. December 1, 2009.

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• I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.

  Ivor Cutler

  Kindness, Lying, Fall

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• Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Color, Intellectual

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Art, Creative, Inspire

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• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Money, Accountability, Debt

  Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”

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• Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Past, Mind

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