Settle Quotes

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. (Jim Rohn)
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. View quote
Karl Kraus
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. View quote
Barack Obama
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. View quote
Maureen Dowd
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. View quote
Lily Tomlin
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. View quote
Thomas Merton
Anything you can settle with money is cheap. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. (Steve Jobs)
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. View quote
Lee Iacocca
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ignorance never settle a question. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles. (Henry David Thoreau)
Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear. View quote
James Frey
For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home. View quote
Billy Joel
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. View quote
David Ogilvy