Best 164 quotes in «settling quotes» category

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not... not settle for it and only it.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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.

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

When you stop hoping you start settling.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev)

And it came to him then, as clearly and as certainly as if he had been watching it on the big screen at the Odeon, Leicester Square: the rest of his life. He would go home tonight with the girl from Computer Services, and they would make gentle love, and tomorrow, it being Saturday, they would spend the morning in bed. And then they would get up, and together they would remove his possessions from the packing cases, and put them away. In a year, or a little less, he would marry the girl from Computer Services, and get another promotion, and they would have two children, a boy and a girl, and they would move out to the suburbs, to Harrow or Croydon or Hampstead or even as far away as distant Reading. And it would not be a bad life. He knew that, too. Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

But the world is winding down, and you take what you're given.

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.

Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up.

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need.

Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.