Quotes About Settled

In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

he arrived; and on hearing his ring at the door I felt myself liberated from my obsessions. I knew that, if they were stronger than I, he was stronger than they, and my attention was diverted from them and concentrated on him who would have to settle them.

but I also asked why they didn't chase their dreams. How many rock stars just settled for accountancy? How many astronauts grew up to be psychologists? Other kids were playing Mafia Wars, we were taking down the fucking Mafia and no it wasn't normal. It wasn't even close.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

On the feed the humans settled some details of what I was designating as Operation Not Actually A Completely Terrible Plan.

By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

'Accounts are not quite settled between us,' said she, with a passion that equaled my own. 'I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.'

And in the past there is so blessedly nothing for us to worry about. Everything is settled.

To the believer, truths are a settled thing, a fact; to the freethinker, a thing that is still to be settled.

In 1781, John Witherspoon, a Scotsman who was President of Princeton, wrote, convincingly: The vulgar Americans speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain for a very obvious reason viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently from place to place, they are not so liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology. There is a greater difference in dialect between one county and another in Britain than there is between one state and another in America.

Hindsight is the easy way to mop up the mess which we call history; it is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

Get the family settled first. Make the most of your arrival. Make sure you are in compliance. Build the team by building the business. Take a fast first cut at strategic priorities. Don't be a tourist.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

In the night, the house settled. Creaks sounded in the hallways like errant footsteps, windows popped in their frames, china rattled in the cupboards, and pictures suddenly slipped awry on the walls.

The galaxy's huge, but humanity's still only settled pinpricks of it," Rourke replied, turning and leading the way towards the cargo bay once more, "and people who've made a career of doing the sort of things we do . . . well, we tend to cluster around the same pinpricks. It's the nature of the business.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

The issues the underground press raised have not been settled. In colder times they may have frosted over, but as long as individuals and groups seek to take control of their own lives the experiences of those times contain information that can and must be used.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure.

Supply-side economics… is like one of those African viruses that, however often it may be eradicated from the settled areas, is always out there in the bush, waiting for new victims.

Toshana said they had no captives either. That if the agent wanted them to stop taking captives he should tell the army to come to them and they would settle it by force. But that was the only way it would ever be settled. He smiled as he said it. Jiles, Paulette. The Color of Lightning: A Novel (p. 294). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.