Quotes with settled

  • The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
  • There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
  • The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

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  • Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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  • Bill Watterson The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Seneca A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Golding I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Harry S. Truman I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bill Kristol If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham It is a sign of mediocrity to have settled opinions on unsettled subjects.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Andrew Jackson It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Adam Ferguson Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society I, III
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Amelia Earhart Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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