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Quotes About Settling

Settling Down is seen as something of a renunciation of the Good Life (it is, of course, for most, a swapping of one sort of good life for another).
~ Frank Moorhouse
I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
~ Mitski
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
~ Anne Tyler
I have travelled the world and lived in places such as Africa, Australia, America, and I have to say there is a great sense of belonging that comes with finally settling in Mumbai.
~ Shibani Dandekar
you should know about precipitation, a very neglected area of herbal medicine. The constituents that you have extracted from the herbs are held in suspension in a liquid medium. Over time, some of these constituents will precipitate out and settle on the bottom of the tincture bottle.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.
~ Jen Sincero
Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
~ David Levithan
Some girls are so vain! You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity. Well
~ Bram Stoker
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
~ Terry Pratchett
I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
~ Hansika Motwani
For the time spent in impersonal accommodation has become so brief that the contemporary nomad no longer has the luxury of settling down once and for all. Of greater importance to him is what he can take away with him, what is mobile and portable.
~ BRUCE BEGOUT
I think scoring runs in the Ranji Trophy is a bit easier than in T20s because the fielders are always inside the circle at the start of the innings and look to attack. So if you push in the gap you will get runs. At the start it is not quite difficult, once you settle down it becomes easier.
~ Shreyas Iyer
People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.
~ Indya Moore
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
~ Josh Lucas
Part of the responsibility of being a modern storyteller is understanding modern audiences and trusting what they can handle. It's not just settling into what we think they want.
~ Colman Domingo
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
~ Janis Joplin
Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.
~ Jill Davis
Find a girl, settle down, If you want you can marry.
~ Cat Stevens
...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Memories and revelations settle in like poisons, never to be expunged.
~ Steven Erikson
Truths, yes. One after another, one boulder settling down, then another. And another. Blotting out the light, darkness closing in, grit and sand sifting down, a solid silence when the last one is in place. Now, dear fool, try drawing a single breath. A single breath. There were clouds closed fast round the moon. And one by one, gardens died.
~ Steven Erikson
Truths, yes. One after another, one boulder settling down, then another. And another. Blotting out the light, darkness closing in, grit and sand sifting down, a solid silence when the last one is in place. Now, dear fool, try drawing a breath. A single breath. There were clouds closed fast round the moon. And one by one, gardens died.
~ Steven Erikson
There is no more irritating fellow than the one who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or freedom, by quoting from the dictionary. Lexicographers may be respected as authorities on word usage, but they are not the ultimate founts of wisdom.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
him. Not that a hint of his thoughts showed on his face when he walked into The Rainier Room, one of the smaller meeting rooms. Half a dozen worried-looking executives were settling
~ Nancy Warren