Settling Quotes - Page 6

• I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

  Agyness Deyn

  Clever, Nice, Character

  "Agyness Deyn and Giovanni Ribisi Are Married After Just Months of Dating!" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. June 21, 2012.

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• You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

  Janis Joplin

  Fighting, Want, Problem

  "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.

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• Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

  Stephen Lang

  Fun, Roles, Down And

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• Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Train Of Thought

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• Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don't happen, I'd rather have nothing but know I didn't settle for something I didn't want!

  Salma Hayek

  Motivational, Thinking, Want

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• Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

  Dave Davies

  Rain, Clouds, Scary

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• We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

  Roland Barthes

  Forget, Vacant

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• Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fantasy, Bumper Sticker, Abandon

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• I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.

  Eric Thomas

  Average, Want

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fashion, Stupid, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.222, Crown

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• In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Special, Rewards

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• I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

  Peter Steele

  Littles, Ready To Settle Down, Feels

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• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  Peter Gabriel

  Writing, Thinking, Listening

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• Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

  Dan Miller

  Opportunity, Risk, Hanging On

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.68, Crown Business

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• There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

  Andrew Davidson

  Loss, Air, Forever

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, Sawdust, Shade

  Charles Dickens (1865). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.112

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• I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.543

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• Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Helping Others, Care, Deeds

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• From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.

  The Miz

  Willing

  "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Vocabulary, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The winter evening settles down
  With smell of steaks in passageways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Food, Winter, Smell

  "Preludes" l. 1 (1917)

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• No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

  Henry Ford

  Crush, Past, Government

  Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1936). “The Only Real Security: An Interview with Henry Ford”

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• In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Cities, Metropolitan

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre or The Ambiguities”, p.277, Herman Melville

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