Settling Quotes - Page 33

• As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.

  Russ Carnahan

  Country, Spring, Home

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

  Stafford Cripps

  Mean, Government, Differences

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• But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  World, Matter, Way

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.64, Princeton University Press

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• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  Adam Gopnik

  Stars, Rocks, Add

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

  Cindy Gallop

  Attractive, Older Women, Wanted

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• It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

  Douglas Booth

  Journey, Thinking, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Girlfriend, Mind, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Literature

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• I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

  Rupert Everett

  Ties, Way, Tie Dye

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• Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Hands, Grind

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• It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

  Toby Keith

  Order, Law, Long

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• You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

  Jack Gantos

  Heart, Kids, Medication

  Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

  Clara Hughes

  Winning, Average, Training

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• If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

  Townsend Harris

  Desire, Firsts, England

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• Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Children, Purpose, Wanted

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• I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Peace, Past, Want

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• I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Thinking, Balance

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• Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

  Laozi

  Love, Water, Way

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.11, Chinese University Press

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• I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Thinking, People, Comfort

  "FacebookTwitterGoogleEmailCopy Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.

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• There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.

  John Shelton Reed

  Running, Jobs, Justice

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• Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Order

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• We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Country, Land, Race

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.34

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• Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Loss, Self

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• Those who have no mental vigilance,
  Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
  With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
  Their learning will not settle in their memories.

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Memories, Teaching

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