Quotes About Resolve

I won't be alone with him, Livingston. He'll be alone with me.

de lo que se conoce con el nombre de perseverancia cuando la causa es buena,—y con el de obstinación cuando es mala.

Non riesco a fermarmi, ma non posso andare avanti.

I know what you mean," I said. "The thing is, it's not something I have to be told. I've always been a stubborn son of a bitch. When I start something I have a hell of a time letting go of it. I think that's the main way I solve things, to tell you the truth. I don't do it by being brilliant. I just hang on like a bulldog until something shakes loose.

I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

It is human nature to strive.

You're insane.""It'll work.""Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

There comes a time when a man has to kill his own snakes.

When all else fails, use the pen.EMW

If I can't have your babies, I'll damn sure deliver them!

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.