Settling Quotes

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Two years long have I sought a home; here I have found it; here I remain.

The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

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

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Me and my family all like Shanghai, and I'm slowly getting used to the city and the atmosphere.

One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn't want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me.

I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.