Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

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

I'm in love with God and God's in love with me, this is who I am and this is who I'll be and that settles it. Completely.

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.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

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

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

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.

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is one of the oldest professions.

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 had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

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.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Yeah.” Rhage sighed. “All I want is one good female. But I guess I’ll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn’t it?

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.

I had never thought of settling down. I had started believing I was always going to live alone. Marriage was the last thing on my agenda.

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.

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

I guess getting used to sleeping on the tour bus has been the hardest thing - that and settling for whatever food you can get on the road.

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.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.

[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.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

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

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.

Milan is good, and I am settling in nicely, which is important. Everyone is friendly at the club and are looking after me well, so I can't complain.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

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.

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.

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in New York, so I grew up there.

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.

It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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.

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

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

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