#settle

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#down #forced #freedom #gave #hide

Love is not all you need – you will also need food, clothes and a roof over your heads. Silly, but so true. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#food #love #marriage #needs #settle-down

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#decided #down #explained #how #i

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #drove #english #field #history

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled. ↗

— William Cavendish

#head #horse #nothing #settled #till

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#driven #ever #feel #get #guy

From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#chance #crash #create #democratic #economic

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#continue #even #first #going #honesty

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#better #get #hire #leave #look

It simply is not true that war never settles anything. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#never #settles #simply #true #war