Quotes About Resolve

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been misconstrued as arrogant rather than the single-mindedness they really are.

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters... on that aspect, no.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You never want to be in a bases-loaded, no-outs position, but dammit, when you're there, you better enjoy it. You better not sit there and sulk about it. You better rise up and figure it out.

The answer is always at the site of the problem.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

It doesn't really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do.

I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Don't worry, Beth; there's nothing I love more than a challenge.

Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.

I'm too old to do things by half