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Quotes About Settled

There's this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled - because they're the majority - there's a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.
~ Pete Gallego
The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.
~ Alan Huffman
It seemed that a lot of what she was thinking about now wasn't exactly new: it had just settled at the bottom of her life like sediment while she got on with things. Now the sediment had been stirred by grief and change.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.
~ Markus Zusak
I won't say my emotions had settled themselves by the time the train pulled into Kyoto Station early the following morning. After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
~ Arthur Golden
and when he finally did break, he would take with him his contagious restlessness and dissatisfaction and guilt, his little gestures and phrases and attitudes that stank of their parents and the past, and Scott would relax again and prove to himself that he had settled all that, left if far below him.
~ Arthur Phillips
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.
~ Arthur Pink
Morta la vecchia, debito saldato.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Sitting between the two professors, I enjoyed their contradictory advice. I sat there smiling, thinking of the first message I received from John Berger. It was a beautiful handwritten letter, from a writer who had been my hero for years: 'Your fiction and nonfiction—they walk you around the world like your two legs.' That settled it for me.
~ Arundhati Roy
A whirlwind had entered the room and turned the whole thing upside down. Now it settled around Alice, tiny dust motes glittering as they fell.
~ Jojo Moyes
Now, however, my skepticism was weaving around loose and uncontrolled in my brain ready to get settled in.
~ Jon Spoelstra
Can you understand when I tell you that you owe me nothing? That to have a child is an account which is settled on the spot
~ Enid Bagnold
imagina que no es un vagabundo como todos los otros, debido a que tiene casa, un hogar estable, donde, eso sí, también vagabundea.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
She [Virginia] can have no right, years after all this has been settled, to come into a court of chancery to charge that her own conduct has been a wrong and a fraud.
~ Eric J. Wittenberg
ShadowClan deputy, who had settled in a sunny spot outside Pinestar's den.
~ Erin Hunter
Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.
~ Benjamin Black
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.
~ Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
A lot of Indian musicians settled abroad are fusing Indian music with reggae which I find very impressive.
~ Liz Mitchell
I would like to see myself with some successful albums, and I'd love to be working with new artists as well as continuing to release my own material. I'd also like to be settled in a lovely place with a lovely partner and gorgeous mini ginger Jess!
~ Jess Glynne
The ones who are not soul-mated—the ones who have settled—are even more dismissive of my singleness: It's not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say—they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation—yes, honey, okay, honey—is the same as concord.
~ Gillian Flynn
Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.
~ Sebastian Stan
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
The shock settled on Willa like a personal failure, as if she'd invited the disaster by failing to see it coming.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
~ Ram Charan