Quotes About Settled

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he'd never let her see how close she'd come to unseating a champion

The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.—Butler: Analogy of Revealed Religion.

In America, we have holidays and monuments that celebrate heroes from our past, most of whom have legacies that are settled.

One such factor was greater sedentism

They settled into the long learning of one another: preferences, habits altered, others acquired; disagreement without bile; trust and that wordless conversation that years of companionship rest on.

Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.

We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

That settled it. We were definitely at the stoned part of the conversation.

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

The ultimate goal of the gun ban 'scientific community' is to make the 'gun ownership is a disease' mantra into politically settled science.

No, that's all done and dusted,

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

I feel very comfortable in Munich and my family is doing well.

I am very happy in Munich and my family is totally settled - and now I have a son who is a genuine Bavarian.

I feel good; my family and I feel comfortable in Munich.

He breathed away all the anger, all emotions, cloaking himself with Grace and everything in him settled, once more allowing complete control.

There were two mysteries, actually: one old, one new. The old one opened his mind, but it was the new one that climbed inside, turned several circle, and settled in with a grunt--like a satisfied dragon in a new cozy lair. And there it would remain--the mystery, in his mind--exhaling enigma for years to come.