#settled

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

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#back #becomes #character #come #flight

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#detail #discretion #judgment #matter #mere

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#between #early #groups #hundred #measuring

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#down #exactly #i #into #know

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#easier #effort #find #half-hour #hard

I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate. ↗

— Harold Ford

#bump #came #convention #country #democratic

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#even #get #less #minute #settle

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

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

#comic strip #doll #hobbes #i #issue