Quotes About Resolve

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Then he says her name. Her real name. The soft music of it hangs suspended in the air between them. Threat or entreaty, she doesn't know, but she feels her resolve weaken. He says it again, this time, it sounds bitter, false in his mouth. A betrayal. The spell is broken. The woman known as Sophie lifts her arm. And shoots.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

The rumble starts today. Right here, right now. Time to be gutsy as hell.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Sometimes you make a sacrifice for what you believe,even if it hurts you your whole life.

He told me that if you had a plan in place, every situation was winnable.

I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

You know, Youko. When you don't know which choice is the best, then you should choose the path you ought to take, rather than the one you wish for. You're going to regret the path not taken. But regrets being more or less equal, better the one where the regret is even a bit less." - Rakushun.

We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do,We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too.

And she grasps it because it's her fate.

Memento Audere Semper

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

I'm going to play until the end of this life.

True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.

My point is, it's tempting," she said. "It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.

Los Angeles, especially when taken from a distance, was not a beautiful city, but she could will herself to be beautiful, if only for two weeks. Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve.

Sam's grandfather had two core beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken.

But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.) She walked through another gate. What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before. By the time she reached the end of the torii gate pathway, she felt resolved.

Sam's grandfather had two beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken.

anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve. Urban renewal projects were accomplished so frantically it seemed like time-lapse photography.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve.