Quotes About Settling

There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.

Those first few plays of the game, you have a lot of adrenaline and excitement. It takes a little while to settle in and start playing football.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

When uncertainty is low, adaptive approaches run the risk of higher costs. When uncertainty is high, optimizing approaches run the risk of settling too early on a particular solution and stifling innovation.

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.

Rosie settled down and read over the newspapers she'd missed while she was away.

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.

But after a career of dissipation she seems delighted to settle down.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The sea squirt—a very simple marine creature—swims about during its juvenile phase looking for a place to settle, and once it settles and starts filter feeding, it digests its own brain, because it no longer has any need for perceptual or motor competence. This is often used as an unkind analogy for getting tenure in academia.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

the Mormons deserve respect for settling the most rugged, difficult as well as spectacular, terrain in the West.

All of my friends from school grew up and settled downAnd they mortgaged off their livesOne thing's not said too much, but I think it's trueThey just get married 'cause there's nothing else to do

they settled themselves on deeply uncomfortable chairs in the meeting room.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

If you wait long enough, someone had told him once, you settle into being married. Miss

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

Connection and love: … We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.