It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.
Marian Burros

It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.
Tim LaHaye

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
Joan of Arc

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

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington

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

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
Lee Krasner

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

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
Bessie Smith

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.
Steve Yzerman

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
Mia Hamm

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.
Eduard Shevardnadze

The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.
Alexander Wiley