Quotes About Resolve

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

Life without commitment is not worth living.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

Are you going to tell him what you told me? he asked. About how you solved the case? I don't know, Stevie said as her breath puffed out in front of her like a feather of rots. No. I don't know. Maybe. No. And if I stay, it's more time to get what I need - anything I can find to bolster the case. Well, Nate said, now that we belong to The Shining reenactment society, you might as well go for it. Last chance.

That message on the wall was someone telling her something. Someone wanted to play with her. So all right. She would play. Maybe she was anxious. Maybe she was untrained. But Steve Bell knew one thing about herself - once she had bitten in, tasted the mystery - she would not let go. She had gotten herself to this mountain. She could do this.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

grasping at straws is the only way to find a needle in a haystack.

With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.

real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. Break

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality" was the closing statement for his proposal, "for its survival will mean our destruction.

eyes fixed on this growing, closing horde. I was, like, "C'mon, Zack, let's fuckin' do this!

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

Failure is a form of quicksand. Take immediate action or you'll be sucked under.

Difficult days demand decisions of faith.

The star Betelgeuse has a diameter of 100 million miles, which is larger than the earth's orbit around the sun.4 Why the immensity? Why such vast, unmeasured, unexplored, "unused" space? So that you and I, freshly stunned, could be stirred by this resolve: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Phil. 4:13 NKJV).

Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.