Quotes About Settle

Power has the power to prevent our annihilation for the time being. On condition that we always remember, at every moment, that in a situation like ours power can only prevent. It can't settle anything and it can't solve anything. It can only stave off disaster for a while.

Night would settle in like slow blindness

Then again, maybe nostalgia was an understandable response to a world that appeared to be going all to hell, as long as everyone remembered that the past was a nice place to visit but nobody should want to settle in it. One

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly.

I'd like to settle and have a family and get married when I'm, like, 30.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.

The thing to remember is that none of these will settle you in any enduring way. Human life is longing for unlimited expansion, and that is the only thing that will settle you for good. The

Mom? Was there a certain conscious point in your life when you decided to settle for being ordinary?' 

One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

I must somehow settle my debt to the world, which I have loved, disregarding what I have learned of its Master's fastidious wastefulness.

Another way to help an active child slow down to allow tiredness to set in is to use a relaxation technique such as massage or yoga.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. In proportion as you give it power it will inquire into everything, settle everything, meddle in everything.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.

Oh billions of dollars — is there no dispute you can't settle?

Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.

But to "settle" the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli's power—beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.

Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.