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“When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.”

Helping Cases Demand Resources Letters Lawyer Settling Jail Prisoner Attorney Wardens

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.”

Ifs Long Soul Waiting Rights Forgiveness Claims Forgiving Rage Settling Squatters

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.”

Funny Found Fun Pay Known Marriage Taken Settling

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”

Knows Men Long War Literature Military Method International Useless Settling Foe Disputes Abolition Destructiveness Settling In

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.”

Firsts Joy Easy Forget Photography Crafts Settling Working It

Author:David Burnett

“On tour I feel like it's always so go go...you're always just taking in and storing information and feelings and things. So for me I need time off to let all those things come out and settle.”

Needs Feels Feelings Information Settling Time Off Time Of Need I Need Time

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.”

Long Doe Government Powerful Roles Progress Century Debate All Time Settling Our Time Role Of Government

Author:Barack Obama

“I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.”

Knows Firsts Two Stories Hands Together Night Know How Bed Boring Settling Chests Worn Apologizing Snoring

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.”

Ifs War Facts Law Capitalism Method Instruments International Settling Phases Disputes In-laws

Author:J. Stalin

“You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.”

Done Body Focus Training Down And Your Body Settling Settling Down

Author:Liam Tancock

“We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That's occasionally what happens. What more often happens is that we settle on some sort of - a few sort of structural ideas, like, "Okay, when I put my finger up, we're all going to move to the extremes of our instruments. So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we're going to stay there until I take my finger down.”

Way Mean Persons Two Ideas Different Play Happens Moving Lows Okay Instruments Fingers Extremes Settling Different Ways

Author:Brian Eno

“The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.”

Men Creative Wonderful He Man Artistic Settling Settling Down Adventurer

Author:James, son of Zebedee

“When I started to get older and I thought, "Well, you know now I'm kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give to children now." Because I feel like I've done everything that I wanted to do in my entire life.”

Knows Want Giving Feels Wells Children Done Wanted Ready Down And Settling Settling Down Ready To Settle Down

Author:Aleta St. James

“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.”

Greater Danger Lows Shooting Settling Eagles Always Believe Settling In

Author:Peter Scott

“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Earth Together Can Do Numbers Race Consciousness Minutes Mountain Opposites Horse Twenties Disappear Settling Quarters Continents Initials Large Numbers Nuance Jockeys

Author:John McPhee

“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.”

Men Made Matter Poor Class Rich Honestly Settling Despise Can Not Poor Man Illogical Mischievous

Book:Views of an Ex-president

Source: Views of an Ex-president

“Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.”

Littles Matter Faces Choices Decision Solutions Conscious Currents Horrible Rational Certainty Settling Finding Yourself Floats Infallible Making Decisions Friction Rational Decisions

Book:INWARD HO!

Source: INWARD HO!

“However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.”

Ifs Enough Spiritual Numbers Scene Areas Settling Urban Centre Spills Rural Areas

Author:Alex Campbell

“In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.”

May Said War States Impossible Paper International Obligation Settling Reaching Disputes Resorts Solemn Comprehensive Treaties

Author:Arthur Henderson

“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.”

World Inspirational Giving Wells Mean Girl Women Inspiring Education Ten Settling Expenses Introducing Jane Mansfield Park Settling In

Book:Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.”

Source: Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars

“Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.”

Thinking Wells Soul Self Spiritual Darkness Our Lives Journey Positive Thinking Divine Comfort Weak Sick Self Confidence Settling Kicks Stand Alone Rupture

Author:Matthew Fox

“He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.”

Want Ideas Fairs Compromise Settling

Author:Thomas Hughes

“My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.”

Heart Soul Hard Enough Dream Passion Realizing Simple Path Hard Work Excellence Settling Your Dreams Heart And Soul Faith In Yourself Follow Your Passion

Book:Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

Source: Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

“The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.”

People Littles Life Is Next Half Broken Worship Weak Satisfaction Seeking Hills Settling Barriers Fountain Hearted Half Hearted

Author:John Piper

“Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.”

Realizing Settling Never Settle

Author:Reggie Jackson

“I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.”

Want Enjoy Youth Settling Settling Down

Author:Chris Evans

“In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.”

Fighting Force Nations Cases Economic Claims Handle Settling Unjust

Author:Rufus Jones

“If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Two Play Hands Eye Energy Wish Grace Train Ease Settling Forty Precision Work And Play Personal Question

Author:Walter B. Pitkin

“Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.”

Victory Thirds Settling Blair Grinning

Author:Michael Howard

“Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.”

Wells May Art Made Memories Practice Painting Habit Musician Hearing Painter Settling Reasoning Thinker Instruction Strict Lectures Reflecting

Book:Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

Source: Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.”

Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature

“Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.”

“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”

Easier Settling

Book:The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.”

Government Lying Atheism All Things Bounds Positive Atheism Esteem Settling

Book:A Letter Concerning Toleration

Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration

“Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"”

People Sometimes Past Wonder Plans Missing Settling Monogamy

Author:Emily Yoffe

“You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.”

Want Feels Stuff My Own Acting Company Creative Plans Produce Settling Getting Old Getting Older Settling Down

Author:Denis Leary

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

Way War Whole Pieces Settling Damn Stupidest Damn Things

Author:Frank Capra

“Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.”

Way Mind Believe Humans Looks Given Settling Interaction Disputes

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.”

Ifs Knows Happens Sound Space Healing Silence Activity Letting Go Bases Notes Things Happen Settling Ingredients Stillness Inactivity

Author:Paul Horn

“Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."”

Ifs Wells Stories Heaven Teacher Daughter Settling Harvard Spelling Our Daughter Your Daughter Bible Stories

Author:Mark Hart

“Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?”

Whole Oil Settling Snakes Python

Author:Mark Jackson

“Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?”

I Can Christian Doubt Settling

Author:William Rainey Harper

“You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.”

Ifs Humans Doe Character Use Evil Social Argument Experiments Useless Settling Distinction Civilized Expenses Behaviour Justified Human Knowledge Vivisection Social Evils

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.”

Cases Settling Doing Nothing

Book:An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

Source: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

“Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.”

Should Mean War Today Past Humanity Nations Differences Modern Horror Nuclear Scales Settling Tragic Agendas Warfare Modern Warfare

Book:Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace

Source: Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace

“I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set.”

Looks Real House Clean Excited Snow Settling Cute Get Real Settling Down Switzerland Movie Sets Geneva

Author:Michael Jackson

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.”

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Author:Warren Beatty

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