Best 164 quotes in «settling quotes» category

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

There are settling girls, and there are unsettling girls. The ones who seem to have it in them to be flyers are the ones who want to snuggle into settling. The ones who look as settled as old housedogs want to twist their way into flying. Necessarily, you must be defensive about being a settling sort of girl.

We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to achieve greatness!

Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many.

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

When we have waited a long time for what we really want, we become temped to fill the emptiness with unworthy substiutes. Don't.

With headlines like "Marry Now or Never," the specter of marriage loomed. It was a constant fear, a threat, a reminder. But Sylvia wasn't baited by those pretty tales of line and hook: the bride-white cake, the prime rib and steak, marriage- that bleak fable- with Husband cast as warden, the future dead clear and blighted.

You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.

Whenever you create anything, you take a risk. And that includes your life. It may work out, it may not. It may be well received, it may not be. . . . It's always a risk to take action. It might not work, it might blow up in your face, you might lose money, you might fail. No one may get it. But that's not the only risk. There's another risk: the risk of not trying it. How is not trying a risk? You risk settling and continuing in the same direction in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything less than yourself.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex.

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.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.