Quotes About Resolve

After a couple of weeks, she grew only more convinced

there's always something. We want these choices. But that doesn't mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do Something. Fix Something. Is there any way out of this? There

I would have gone through with it even if they told me there was a fifty percent chance of death.

The alternative was to do nothing.

I wouldn't be a surgeon if I thought otherwise.)

After a momentary hesitation, he decided to join me.

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

I do not think about my death as being imminent, but I live my days against a background noise of mortality and constant uncertainty. Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Wanting to want something isn't the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not.

I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision.

The unfairness of your current status is unimportant. What matters is, can you do what you need to do? If

The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

I am not brave enough to be a coward, she said. I see the consequences too clearly

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

He muscled words into deeds

Samuel Willard

Kris . . . what do I have to do to put a stop to this?

These are tough times," said the COO to each of them. "And tough times call for hard solutions. Thank you for your contribution. Now get the fuck out of here." Actually, he didn't say that precisely. But that's precisely what he meant.