If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes
can be settled by using force,
then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization
and our best hope of establishing a world order.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
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