Top 75 Settling Quotes

When you start your bobsled career at 30, a time when most are settling down into their ‘real careers’ and many are getting married, you can imagine the barrage of questions and the look of, ‘You’re doing what?’ that you receive.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

‘Content’ is a word that has never sat well with me. Like ‘maturity’. They are two words I’ve never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he’s the rock star, so let him get married first; then I’ll think about myself.

I’ve never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I’ve kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There’s nothing wrong with settling, it’s definitely an easier life than the one I’ve chosen to live.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

One of the great things about the ‘Arrow’ crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They’re always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is one of the oldest professions.

The one thing I don’t consume during ‘Today’ – which surprises many people – is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend ‘Nightly News.’

I lived in L.A., and the possibility out there is endless. I could’ve done reality TV! It was offered to me plenty of times. But that just wasn’t where my heart was. If I wanted quick fame or quick money, I could’ve taken that route, but it just wasn’t settling right with me.

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

I’ve always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

If we have given everything we can, you are not settling for mediocrity because the better team won. Sometimes you have to have that mindset to be able to improve rather than keep telling yourself you should have won.

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn’t want to be raising my girls in the city. They’re in public school now and they’re in a normal situation. We’re sort of settling into that. It’s just a choice.

Really getting married, settling down, and having a kid – that was the biggest thing for me. I realized, this little girl that came into my life, that I created with my wife, and how special is that?

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man’s confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching for the stars and settling for the moon, there is considerable evidence that man is better served reaching for a blade of grass and settling for an under-the-table handshake deal.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Part of the responsibility of being a modern storyteller is understanding modern audiences and trusting what they can handle. It’s not just settling into what we think they want.

Craziest thing I’ve done for love is getting married. I think it’s crazy. I think it’s crazy, crazy, crazy. I’m never going to say I wouldn’t do it again but I have to make sure it’s love and not settling for the ‘I have to do this by a certain age,’ which is kind of what I did.

I run a dating site, but I will gladly tell someone, ‘Do not date someone if it’s not right.’ And don’t settle. This settling thing is insane. I’ve literally had to force friends out of relationships because they want to be married by a certain age, so they just date these guys that are not right for them.

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing – editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.

If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I’ll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I’m settling for a Caavo.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you’d never know it from Western movies.

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards – that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms – has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men’s minds.

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

From getting good grades in school, to thinking about getting a good career and settling down, we all have been running a rat race. We always thought that we were doing it for ourselves but actually we were doing it for others. Like, I realized, I never had time for myself.

One hundred percent I can see myself settling down.

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it’s a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I’m not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I’m not on set for the day. I take our dog, Milo, for a walk before having a light breakfast and settling down to write.

Sometimes in people’s lives, when bad stuff happens, their dreams just die, and they end up settling. I guess that’s their decision, maybe, because they didn’t believe in their dreams or forgot their dreams. My dreams never died.

Obviously, everyone’s different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it’s characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You’re not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

Where we’re not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we’re not going to settle.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

It was controversial when we were settling on what the races should be in ‘Warcraft 3!’

I’m based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

Milan is good, and I am settling in nicely, which is important. Everyone is friendly at the club and are looking after me well, so I can’t complain.

I run into so many people who also have psoriasis and share the same feelings as I had. I tell them that it’s about being your own boss and of not settling until they find whatever it is that works for them and they have their life look the way they want it to.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable – if anything, quite happy with what you are doing – then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I’ve made up to that point.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.