Settling quotes
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"Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision."
"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon."
"Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day."
"Settle back is to settle without knowing."
"Free as a bird to settle where I will."
"In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once."
"Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place."
"Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less."
"We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart."
"You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night."
"When you're looking to meet someone...you're looking to settle."
"Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]"
"The question of how things will settle down is the only important question."
"Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral."
"So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects."
"Never settle. There is no need to rush."
"I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you."
"When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard."
