Quotes About Settling

Until they became the British Empire's greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter of them that became my people, the Scots-Irish, this meant the Appalachian Mountains, their first stop on their way to creating a way of life that many would come to call, if not American, certainly the defining fabric of the South and the Midwest as well as the core character of the nation's working class.

You are only as much as you settle for.

I could tell that she felt happy.  Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

Miles smiled. Can you keep a secret? Bea snorted. Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter? No, Miles conceded. Well, then, she said, as if that settled the matter.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

Tell you what, I said. After the testing after the Demon Days, when things settle down - Things won't settle down. - I'm going to take you to the mall. She blinked. The mall? For what reason? To hang out, I said. We'll get some hamburgers. See a movie. Zia hesitated. Is this what you'd call a 'date'? My expression must have been priceless, because Zia actually cracked a smile. You look like a cow hit with a shovel.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

In those early months, we'd somehow developed this idea that how well you were settling in at the Cottages—how well you were coping—was somehow reflected by how many books you'd read. It sounds odd, but there you are, it was just something that developed between us, the ones who'd arrived from Hailsham.

when Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman decided to leave the family cattle business in Bavaria, they chose by instinct or luck to settle in Montgomery, Alabama, a hub of the cotton trade. The

You want a grand passion, a lifelong romance, but those exist only in poems," Genevieve said. "In real life we women settle for what we can get.

There was a strangeness in the house. Like settling stillness. Weighted dust.

The horizon was shitting a sun, casting a glow on a layer of fog that was settling in the low areas like puddles of ghost piss.

You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be, or settling for what you are.

I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

The biggest challenge in Russia was the cold weather at first but after playing games at -12, I think I am settling down quickly.

By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

Grief is a powerful force that settles in the heart like a dark, heavy fog. It was familiar territory to me.

Wasn't it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn't really wanted to do?

That's how we both got committed to this enormous delusion—because that's what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion—this idea that people have to resign from real life and 'settle down' when they have families. It's the great sentimental lie of the suburbs

There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

One of the great paradoxes in romantic love is that it never produces human relationship as long as it stays romantic. It produces drama, daring adventures, wondrous, intense love scenes, jealousies, and betrayals; but people never seem to settle into relationship with each other as flesh-and-blood human beings until they are out of the romantic love stage, until they love each other instead of being "in love.