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Quotes About Settlement

It is often preferable to settle for a satisfactory solution, rather than pursue an optimal solution.
~ Unknown
The accounts that history presents have to be paid.
~ William Pfaff
If countries remote from a dispute were among those called upon in the first instance to achieve a settlement the result was likely to be merely vapid and academic discussion.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The enforcement of the Baldwin-Coolidge debt settlement is a recognisable factor in the economic collapse which was presently to overwhelm the world, to prevent its recovery and inflame its hatreds.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I do most earnestly beg you not to be diverted from the highway of sound policy in this part of the world, both during the war and at the settlement, by wanderings into the labyrinth of Turkish duplicity and intrigue.
~ Winston S. Churchill
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
~ Clare Short
These changes occurred just as the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean islands and the Portuguese settlement of the Brazilian subcontinent was getting under way and thus opened the American market for African slaves. The decimation of the native Arawak and Carib peoples in the Caribbean islands, the first major zone of European settlement, especially encouraged the early experimentation with African slave labor.
~ Unknown
The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.
~ Herman Bavinck
how about not fighting any? Negotiate, my lord. It's cheaper
~ Hilary Mantel
No one is ever benefited by going to the court of law. Movie Chal Chala Chal
~ Unknown
Whenever the issue can be distinctly made, and all extraneous matter thrown out, so that men can fairly see the real difference between the parties, this controversy will soon be settled, and it will be done peaceably too. There will be no war, no violence.
~ Unknown
Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.
~ Rick Tumlinson
compromise is the work of mature people.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Life was difficult for my family, as we didn't know where to go after leaving Kashmir. We settled down in Mumbai, in a suburb called Mira Road.
~ Kunal Khemu
This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)
~ Unknown
The new settlement was no nearer or dearer to her than, say, America, where they said people, in order to not wear out their feet, walked on their heads.
~ Unknown
Its vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanitys continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
~ Vanna Bonta
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Quizá su batalla para establecerse en Old House había terminado, o quizá se equivocaba al pensar que había encontrado su lugar o que podría encontrarlo alguna vez.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Virginia's culture and its laws were thus a reflection of its unique origins as the first English settlement in the new world. From 1607 on, the interpenetration of the English state, the Anglican Church, the farm, the Indian, the slave and the convict continued. There needed to be laws for the church, the state, and the soldier.
~ Unknown
Home. But this isn't home. May it become so.
~ Peter Straub
Blockchains don't solve settlement and compliance issues — they're only more efficient if they can bypass regulation. Libra could only be more efficient than existing systems as long as it could dodge regulation, and none of its competitors could.
~ David Gerard
We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
~ David Levithan
He'd paid all his taxes, so that left … you guessed it.
~ David Rakoff