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Quotes About Settled

Ulf's life, normally so settled and so ordered, had now become markedly more complicated. What had been the Bim Sundström case had now become the Signe Magnusson investigation, and had, in the process, transformed itself from a case of the suspected non-disappearance of a non-existent person to one involving the actual disappearance of a real person. He
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
~ Calamity Jane
Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?
~ Jevgeni Zamjatin
Still,' he said. 'Ach,' I said. 'Ach nothing,' he said. 'Ach sure,' I said. 'Ach sure what?' he said. 'Ach sure, if that's how you feel.' 'Ach sure, of course that's how I feel.' 'Ach all right then.' 'Ach,' he said. 'Ach,' I said. 'Ach,' he said. 'Ach,' I said. 'Ach.' So that was settled.
~ Anna Burns
I think we've come home.
~ Anne Bishop
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
~ Ram Charan
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
~ Heinrich Boll
I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.
~ Bruce McCulloch
I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.
~ Andrew Eldritch
It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.
~ Robert Michael Pyle
When settled people look for security, they look for continuity." Here
~ Robin Hobb
Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.
~ Lorrie Moore
Jo announced that the coffee was ready, and every one settled themselves to a hearty meal; for youth is seldom dyspeptic, and exercise develops wholesome appetites.
~ Louisa May Alcott
After Rockefeller threatened legal action, Dr. Smith settled for $500.
~ Ron Chernow
Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I stood. At each successive discharge, though showers of them fell, yet the affection of the survivors seemed rather to increase; for after a few circuits around the place, they again alighted near me.
~ Ron Rash
In Vietnam he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He was discharged with honors and settled in Florida.
~ Joe Hill
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
~ Germaine Greer
I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
~ Michael Jordan
After further discussion it was settled that he was to have the upper berth, the old man the lower, and the boy the couch. The Reverend Mr. Upton seemed disappointed. He had played the role of martyr so long he resented seeing any one else in the part.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
Infinity Came down and settled over me; Forced back my scream into my chest, Bent back my arm upon my breast
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
go? We argued. I told him it was a fait accompli.
~ Anthony Horowitz
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
~ Anais Nin
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
~ Robert Woodrow Wilson
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky