Settling Quotes - Page 27

• None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers - a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Journey, Government

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

  Edmond Jabes

  Bird, Doubt, Nests

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• That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Love, Heart, People

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams”, p.72, Canongate Books

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• The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

  George Francis Train

  Years, Land, History

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• The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Angel, Fate, Cutting

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

  Hugh Lofting

  Zoos, Eye, Never Settle

  Hugh Lofting (1922). “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle”, p.62, Frederick A. Stokes

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• It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Country, Teacher, Debt

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

  Kevin Hart

  Relationship, Differences

  FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Sep 28, 2012

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• Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

  Earl Nightingale

  Thinking, People, Want

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• A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

  Catherine Booth

  God, Hope, Real

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• There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Starting, Bigs

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• Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

  Warren Buffett

  Passion, Lucky, Enough

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• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Air, Cities, Names

  "Worpswede". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903.

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• You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

  Nora Ephron

  Dream, Reality, Fool

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.174, Vintage

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• Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is true and the Promiser is faithful. Whether I stand on the summit or am hidden in the vale the covenant stands fast and everlasting love abides.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Faithful

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• Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline.

  Rob Brezsny

  Real, Hard Work, Skills

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• When you're looking to meet someone...you're looking to settle.

  Lauren Conrad

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• When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Smart

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

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• Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

  Chris Rock

  Love, Men, Surrender

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• Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Worry, Focus, Making Money

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• If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Successful, People

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Bystanders, Embrace

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• And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

  Audre Lorde

  Responsibility, Safe, Graves

  Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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• You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Believe, Greatness

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• We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Stress, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Jun 05, 2014

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