Settling Down Young Quotes

As well as the [League of Nations] delegates themselves and their suites, there were innumerable campaigners of one sort and another, male and female, clerical and lay, young and old; all with some notion to publicise, some pet solution to offer, some organisation to promote. They gathered in droves, fanning out through the city, and settling in hotels and pensions, from the Lakeside ones down to tiny obscure back-street establishments. Ferocious ladies with moustaches, clergymen with black leather patches on the elbows of their jackets or cassocks and smelling of tobacco smoke, mad admirals who knew where to find the lost tribes of Israel, and scarcely saner generals who deduced prophetic warnings from the measurement of the pyramids; but one and all believers in the League's historic role to deliver mankind painlessly and inexpensively from the curse of war to the great advantage of all concerned. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option? (But then, a sole option was no option at all.) "Thousands of years of evolutionary and social development and this is our only choice?" he'd asked Harold when they were up in Truro this past summer, and Harold had laughed. "Look, Willem," he said, "I think you're doing just fine. I know I give you a hard time about settling down, and I agree with Malcolm's dad that couplehood is wonderful, but all you really have to do is just be a good person, which you already are, and enjoy your life. You're young. You have years and years to figure out what you want to do and how you want to live. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground. ~ Cyril Connolly

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

None of us had been in love, not really, until now. Anything we had called love came back to us as mockery in the face of this sudden flight from reason. Andy had said he was in love with Missy, and it was a shame Missy was not in love with him. A daily lament rose from him like the steam of the heat from the pipes at school. Andy's mother hit the counter with her fist. "They're too young," she said, talking about Natalie and Dion, and we knew she was talking about their tongues running along the inside of each other's teeth and the suddenly anxious too-tight grip of her hand between his legs, and the taste of each other's skin, and the smell of each other's bodies, and the feel of him slipping inside her and her settling down over him, the shape of her mouth, the shape of his. She was talking about their bodies but thinking about the words they had used. Everyone knew. "Love," she finally growled, as if the creature itself had risen from her dreams to take over her kitchen. She gripped a package of spaghetti as if it was a club and stared at the wall, paralyzed by the idea of them out there. ~ Jason Brown

If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. ~ Toni Morrison

Also, although the great majority of the letters I've received from Hmong readers have been positive, most of the negative ones have criticized me for telling a story that was not mine to tell. I am no lover of identity politics; I believe that anyone should be allowed to write about anyone. Still, I would have harbored the same proprietary resentment had I been they. It was exactly how I felt thirty years ago, when women's voices were harder to hear because men were drowning them out. Now that young Hmong writers are starting to publish - including Mai Neng Moua, who edited a landmark literary anthology called Bamboo Among the Oaks, and Kao Kalia Yang, who wrote a fierce, sad memoir called The Latehomecomer - I am happy to shut up and listen. I hope The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is settling into its proper place not as the book about the Hmong but as a book about communication and miscommunication across cultures. ~ Anne Fadiman

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

I could settle down into a state of
equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. ~ Charles Dickens

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me. ~ Poppy Montgomery

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. ~ Dale Peck

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through ~ Paul Torday

Honestly, the word "settling" makes my blood boil. It's an absolute insult! It introduces the degeneration of the soul and totally undermines our sensuality. It also dilutes the whole notion of what it means to be in love, in my opinion. ~ Lebo Grand

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question ... ~ Leo Tolstoy

I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD. ~ Sherri Rifkin

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually. ~ Chris Evans

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

Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it. ~ Oscar Wilde

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. ~ John Mayer

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point. ~ Richard Armitage

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively. ~ Gene Tunney

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November. ~ Norman Tebbit

As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction,
We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way.
Yes, but which way shall we choose?
Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night. ~ Christopher Paolini

Liv's perfect. She deserves perfect. She won't be settling for anything else. ~ Samantha Young

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. ~ Liam Tancock

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

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon. ~ Elaine Stritch

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down. ~ Cindy Gallop

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry. ~ Michael Winner

Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning. ~ Joe Pesci

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves ... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. ~ David Ben-Gurion

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes. ~ Albert Camus

There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and ... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down. ~ Luke Wilson

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head. ~ Anne Enright

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position. ~ Rocco DiSpirito

When we have waited a long time for what we really want, we become temped to fill the emptiness with unworthy substiutes. Don't. ~ Jackie Viramontez

Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose. ~ Ursula Goodenough

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves. ~ Robert M

People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements. ~ Tom Robbins

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! ~ Catherine Booth

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. ~ Amy Carmichael

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. ~ C.S. Lewis

Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle
down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club.
You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always
some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the
club. ~ Chris Rock

Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock. ~ Rebecca West

There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it. ~ Glenn Beck

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. ~ William Osler

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

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

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living. ~ George Sheehan

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

The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down. ~ Evan Meekins

...Let me tell you something, Allen. I've been around now, enough to know there are some bigger things in the world than marriage and a prosaic settling down under one roof."

"Now, I'll tell you something." He sat up straighter under the wheel. "There isn't, - not a thing - when it's two people who really care, and, and settling down under one roof, as you say, is the beginning of a real home. There's nothing finer... ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder. ~ Gayle Forman

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ~ Douglas MacArthur

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

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood. ~ Emma Donoghue

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

I can make things happen when plays break down. ~ Vince Young

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity. ~ Howard Schultz

Healing cannot be done by settling a score. ~ Alice Walker

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls. ~ Austin O'Malley

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. ~ Eliot Spitzer

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying. ~ Allen Ginsberg

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. ~ Chinua Achebe

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto. ~ John Updike

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie. ~ Katherine Reay

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object. ~ Herman Melville

She should get a divorce and settle down. ~ Jack Paar

I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children. ~ Ron Moody

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening. ~ Walter Lippmann

Though everyone I knew seemed to be either settling down or looking to settle down, I was never on a deep-sea fishing expedition to find a boyfriend. And a "great catch," well, that seemed to be begging for heartache. ~ Julie Buxbaum

It's funny how seeing another person hurt can break you down faster than your own emotions -Audrey ~ Suzanne Young

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? ~ Janis Joplin

When you are 70% sure, act /
because the other 30% is reserved for hope /
which is doubt turned upside-down. ~ Dean Young

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence. ~ Evan Meekins

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul. ~ Larry Eskridge

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead. ~ Neil Young

How can I lean on you when you're lying down? ~ Samantha Young

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Was I a science experiment? Did he want to pin me down and dissect me? ~ Suzanne Young

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get. ~ Delmon Young

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself. ~ Yuvraj Singh

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president. ~ Ann Coulter

Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want. ~ Jill Davis

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser. ~ Adam Young

When you stop hoping you start settling. ~ Valorie Burton

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. ~ Henry Adams

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down. ~ Neil Young

Don't you have a house to blow down? ~ Angela Parkhurst

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk. ~ Poul Anderson

To Lovers out there …

Settling down is not retirement. Fooling around is not an achievement. You settle down, because you found the right partner. You fool around, because you are looking for a right partner. ~ De_philosopher_DJKyos

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand. ~ Drew Barrymore

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential
whether as a leader or in any other part of your life. ~ Kevin Eikenberry

Still, we were young, and hope has strong roots in
the young, right down to their toes, ~ V.C. Andrews