Settling Quotes

My God, I was settling in for a long winter`s nap. I`ve been nominated, like 789 times, but it hasn`t been since the Mesozoic Era that I`ve actually won. (on winning a Golden Globe for _Adaptation._ (2002))

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

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I`ve made up to that point.

Getting married and settling down isn`t the most important thing in my life.

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.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it`s characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You`re not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

I have a domestic side. I like the idea of having a family and settling down some day. But Joanne is limited and hasn`t really lived. She`s not worldly. And it comes through in her character.

(One account, in J. Henry Cartland`s) Ten Years at Pemaquid, ... came over to this country with the view of settling here, but left his wife in the old country, until he could first make himself a little acquainted with the new country, and provide a suitable place for his family. Though he escaped from the wreck unhurt, his mind was deeply affected by his narrow escape, and he wrote to his wife such a doleful account of the storm and shipwreck that she never could be persuaded to undertake the voyage, even to join her husband. And he was too timid to risk himself again on the stormy Atlantic, they remained separated the rest of their lives.

It is just too massive for any private insurer to handle. The government has to have a role there, and the insurers need to have a role in settling claims so we can develop a better system for the future.

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.

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.

There just isn`t enough money to make it interesting for anyone to go and settle with Andersen at this stage. You run too many risks that by settling with Andersen at this stage you could compromise your claims against other defendants who have adequate resources.

Theoretically, if Andersen can work out a deal with the SEC and the DOJ they can go ahead without settling with the plaintiffs,

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

That`s a good thing, ... And if we`re settling for field goals, we might not have won the last two, especially the Washington game. It was big our offense came through.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.