What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
Quotes about unsettled (16 Quotes)
I don't know what they are playing at. They are just making the boy unsettled, and they keep upsetting him. I find Bolton's behavior and what they are doing scandalous. They should stop messing around. The situation is becoming a bit annoying.
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
It's a little bit surprising Roger has gone so early in his time at the U. K. bank and in terms of the turnaround of the U. K. business. It's unsettled the market a bit. Any unexplained personnel changes aren't going to be appreciated.
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled.
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears as much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
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.
In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.
Here, there is, curiously, no very close analogy. We know that having 'under God' on our currency, for example, has never been thought to violate the Establishment Clause. On the other hand, the requirement that someone salute the flag and recite the pledge, that's a different question - unsettled, but at least it clearly raises a different set of issues.
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.
What I intend to do is lead an investigation to find out what went right and what went wrong, ... We still live in an unsettled world. We want to make sure we can respond properly if there is a WMD (weapons of mass destruction) attack or another major storm.
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.