166 Quotes About Settling

This was the second stage in my life, a step in my personal evolution--abandoning the idea of being different, and settling for normal... Gradually I drew nearer to the world, and the world drew nearer to me.

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.

My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all.

Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want-take it or leave it.'

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

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?