Quotes About Settling

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.

Of this crisis in my life, I remember chiefly a sense of tremendous inevitability, a feeling that fate was settling its own problems, and too much reflection would be out of place.

What does love mean to him, these days? He clings to me as he might cling to anything he had been used to for a long while, but I no longer bring him any kind of happiness. Perhaps it is unfair, but I resent it: he accepts this indifference---he has settled down into it.

I'm not sure that I shall. I'm trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I've failed at every positive thing I've tried. I'd better 'settle down,' as they call it, and be satisfied to be—nothing.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination!

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.

The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.

I lived in L.A., and the possibility out there is endless. I could've done reality TV! It was offered to me plenty of times. But that just wasn't where my heart was. If I wanted quick fame or quick money, I could've taken that route, but it just wasn't settling right with me.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.

That's going to be the highlight of my life - having children and settling down.

You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

My new home was much to my liking.

People don't respect each other and let go so easily, so till I find someone whom I really connect with, I won't settle down.

It's all about timing and I felt the time was right for both Neha and me to start a family... whenever I used to think of settling down, I couldn't think of anyone else but Neha.

Rarely are there big heroic choices that will settle matters once and for all. The smallest positive step is probably the right one. Try not to argue. If you're right, you don't need to argue. If you're wrong, it won't help. If you're okay, things will be okay. If you're not okay, nothing else matters.

Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better. But the truth is holy, and even as I known how wrong he was, and his death useless, I tremble, for I confess that something perversely pure calls to me from his memory- not purely good, but himself purely, for he allowed himself to be wholly known and for that I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients. And yet, it is better to settle for half, it must be! And so I mourn him- I admit -with a certain... alarm.

Rahel drogs in i äktenskapet som en resenär dras till en ledig stol i vänthallen på en flygplats. Med en Slå sig ner-känsla.

Why not just try to settle in, take your place, however undeserved, among the fortunate? Why not trust that almost everyone, even in his own house, is a troubled guest?

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.