#settled

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #being #certainly #children #come

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#against #between #disputes #each #guarantee

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#beneath #bottom #crust #earth #election

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#came #england #family #half #i

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#day #decisions #great #iron #majority

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. ↗

— Paul Engle

#christmas #christmas eve #eve #hand #i

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#having #i #life #made #opponents