Quotes About Resolve

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

Life is a suicide mission.

She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out.

If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

Until you know that you're tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don't commit to battle.

My assignment from Graff, thought Theresa, is to become an assassin in order to protect my son. And the truly horrifying thing is that I'm not questioning whether to do it, but how. And when.

In the face of a threat to the survival of the species, all these planetside trivialities are put aside until the crisis passes.

but you can't preserve at all.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

You can't just physically beat a man and expect him not to retaliate. Insults, slaps, threats go just so far. You've got to go for the jugular. You've got to finish the job in a clean sweep. What do the French call it? Coup de grace, as believe. I did learn a few things from living with Charlie.

He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.

If I dont go will you go anyways? John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.