Quotes About Resolve

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

A noble jilt, my dears," said Mrs. Carbuncle eloquently, "is a contradiction in terms. There can be no such thing. A woman, when she has once said the word, is bound to stick to it. The delicacy of the female character should not admit of hesitation between two men. The idea is quite revolting." "But may not one have an idea of no man at all?" — asked Lucinda. "Must that be revolting also?

But to go back in such circumstances is a terrible disaster. It amounts to complete defeat; and is tantamount to a confession that you must go home, because you are unable to ride to hounds. A man, when he is compelled to do this, is almost driven to resolve at the spur of the moment that he will give up hunting for the rest of his life.

CHAPTER LXVI 'I MUST GO

CHAPTER XLIX MISS TREFOIL'S DECISION

And yet she knew that something must be done. She could not afford to wait as other girls might do. Why not Sir Griffin as well as any other fool? It may be doubted whether she knew how obstinate, how hard, how cruel to a woman a fool can be

There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind.

CHAPTER LIX THE LAST EFFORT

Then John Morton made up his mind that he would never ask another American Senator to his house.

The guinea fee, the principle of giving advice and of selling no medicine, the great resolve to keep a distinct barrier between the physician and the apothecary, and, above all, the hatred of the contamination of a bill, were strong in the medical mind of Barsetshire.

But running away is not the thing. One may be pretty nearly sure that one is right when one says that a man shouldn't run away from anything.

CHAPTER XLV LORD RUFFORD MAKES UP HIS MIND

we must use a firm hand.

Well then; do men deliberate about everything, and is anything soever the object of Deliberation, or are there some matters with respect to which there is none? (It may be as well perhaps to say, that by object of Deliberation is meant such matter as a sensible man would deliberate upon, not what any fool or madman might.)

Ik zou of niet meer dood willen of ik zou gewoon willen sterven. Alles wat daartussenin zit vind ik eigenlijk geen oplossing.

Problems seldom go away if they're ignored.

Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker.

Gücü doÄŸru ÅŸekilde uygularsan bütün siyasal sonuçlar? çözebilirsin.

En ese momento, mientras su corazón anhelaba lo inalcanzable, tomó una decisión. Supo entonces qué haría con su vida.

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

We are bound to go." My answer was to rise from the table. "You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go." He sprang up and shook me by the hand. "I knew you would not shrink at the last," said he, and for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen. The next instant he was his masterful, practical self once more.

Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it's any use in lighting you to the truth. This woman is innocent and this woman has to be cleared, and it's up to you to do it. Name your figure! My professional charges are upon a fixed scale, I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.

You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.

Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.