Quotes About Settlement

A good compromise leaves everyone angry.

Pike County, which now has Pittsfield as its seat, was once so large that it included Chicago, which was then a tiny settlement on Lake Michigan.

As part of the appeasement policy there must be a settlement with the Duce—all according to that world conqueror's wishes. They would recognize his title to Abyssinia and his right to intervene in the Spanish war. The Loyalists there were still holding out, in spite of Franco's frequent announcements that they were beaten. Now the British would recognize Franco's belligerency, and would force the French to do the same.

No, but I can't help wishing that political and economic problems might be settled by free discussion and majority consent. At least I feel bound to advocate that method for my own country, and for all others which have established the democratic process.

The bowed frame of an old man is the settlement in the architecture of life. Nature had formed him for sadness.

For a girl raised on the rim of a wilderness, it was strange to be in a place where every inch of ground had been settled for hundreds upon hundreds of years. I felt the press of people, and the press of ghosts—great hordes of those who had lived and walked before me.

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

it's an even bargain -one in which we both lose.

Evolution intended us to be travelers….Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been…a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time." —Bruce Chatwin, ANATOMY OF RESTLESSNESS

Evolution intended us to be travelers….Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been…a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time.

It has never ceased to astonish me that the Arab states have been so eager to go to war against us. Almost from the very beginning of Zionist settlement until today, they have been consumed by hatred for us.

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

The myth of the pioneer family or lone frontiersman venturing into virgin forest to hack out a meager homestead is belied by the thoroughly organized commercial value of such ventures. The main figure in the settlement of the west was the land company, which frequently operated not only on the edge of civilization but on the edge of legality as well.

The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement "Mound City" in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but those mounds have since been cleared away to make room for the modern city.

In March the two sides announced a settlement. NTP's persistent demand for royalties was off the table. Instead RIM would pay NTP a lump sum of $612.5 million. Thomas Campana did not live to see his case validated. The heavy smoker died of cancer in 2004. NTP's law firm, Wiley Rein, pocketed $245 million of the settlement, the largest contingency fee earned by any U.S. law firm that year.

Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled somewhere out of the country. He had prudently refrained from liberating those living in important border states like Kentucky and Maryland, whose governments sided with the North; only slaves in states like Alabama and Louisiana were freed.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

To ensure financial stability, we expect the provision of U.S. government securities settlement services to be robust in nearly all contingencies.

I didn't find it hard to settle at United because there was a great bunch of players, great staff, and a good atmosphere at the club.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.