At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

- Andre Previn

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

- Boris Kodjoe

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

- Bruce Feirstein

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

- Blythe Danner

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

- Busta Rhymes

So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.

- Brody Jenner

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

- Berry Gordy

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

- Benjamin Franklin

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.

- Ben Shapiro

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

- Abraham Clark

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

- Abraham Lincoln

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

- Aubrey O'Day

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.

- Alison Jackson

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

- April Bloomfield

There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity - are frankly better cities to live in - than if we settle for the status quo.

- Alex Steffen

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

- Amanda Bynes

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

- Adam Davidson

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

- Ashton Kutcher

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

- Adele