Top 273 Not Settling Quotes & Sayings

I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

One hundred percent I can see myself settling down.

It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

When Take That came around my band had just come to an end and I was settling into acting life.

Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

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.

I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach.

A fully fit Arjen is capable of settling a game by himself.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

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

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

The biggest challenge in Russia was the cold weather at first but after playing games at -12, I think I am settling down quickly.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for

When you stop hoping you start settling.

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

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.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

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.

That's going to be the highlight of my life - having children and settling down.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

Getting married in 1947 and settling down in Hollywood was the real beginning of my career.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

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.

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?

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

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.

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 have travelled the world and lived in places such as Africa, Australia, America, and I have to say there is a great sense of belonging that comes with finally settling in Mumbai.

It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man's confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching for the stars and settling for the moon, there is considerable evidence that man is better served reaching for a blade of grass and settling for an under-the-table handshake deal.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

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

It was controversial when we were settling on what the races should be in 'Warcraft 3!'

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

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.