I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.
Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone. --Marya
Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a difficult task.
I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.
Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.
Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality. " I settle into the rhythm of my steps.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.