Quotes About Resolve

It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

Leslie turned herself about passionately.

I, Leo Chao, would rather be dead than stop eating pig. I will be ash and bone chunks in a little urn before I don't eat juicy pig.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. From screenplay: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Gus knew himself. He knew how he wanted to be, and he had chosen in the critical hour not to accept being less.

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

Louis told himself he only wanted to know if he could get pills. His addiction wasn't broken unless he had a choice to lapse.

Pop says, 'Now you head on out of here and you better hope the snow covers your tracks because I'm going to finish this whiskey and then I'm coming

only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.

Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for -Dan

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

He was going to build his life here, right here, in the name of love and honor and whatever else he was feeling, even if he couldn't name up for what it was: exhaustion.

There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

When a man undertakes a job, he has to stick to it till he finishes it. If

I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.

Sawyer: Tell me where you are,Keely O´Hare,or I swear to God when I find you-and I will find you-I´ll paddle your ass something fierce. Keely:Oh,I´d like to see you try.

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

Hesitation will get you killed.

I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.

I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.

Can you speed this up? I want to get to bed. A slight frown appeared between his eyes. Anita, you are not making this easy. Hurrah, I said. The frown smoothed out as he sighed. You would think I would give up on you ever being easy. Yes, I said, you would. Anita and Jean-Claude

you either kill your enemies or you leave them the fuck alone.

Lead me, really lead me, or get the hell out of my way! -Anita Blake