Quotes About Resolve

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

What's really bad is that after acknowledging a wrong decision, I don't have the nerve to turn back, since I'd rather correct myself with another wrong decision.

Never choose a battle; only fight if you cannot walk away.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door.

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

You gave me your promise, was the reply, spoken with the same immovable self-possession. You must write for me, or break your word.

I think it will end here. When I can bear it no longer, I think it will end here.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

But I can try it. I can try to do it.

now i can get them teeth

Anyway, there is a certain integral consistency which, whether it be right or wrong, a man must cherish because it alone will ever permit him to die.

You just had to know how to do it, and when to do it, and most important of all, why to do it. Powerful substance like this, Lowell would explain, it wasn't there just for any casual jack-off recreational urge. It was there to allow you to do things. To empower you, he said, so you could do things and, best of all, finish them.

So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear. We've got to talk about this fear and decide there's nothing in it.

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

Hello," he said. "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Will you draw your sword with your free hand? I already have. Will you make a fist with yours? It's clenched.

The next morning, Inigo began the track-down. He had it all carefully prepared in his mind. He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel.

Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth (be it of either kind), we do so with our whole nature, and resolve to stand or fall by the results. The sceptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser, Omniscience only knows.

he was as good as his word, for he became a teetotaler, a nonsmoker and a vegetarian to boot

Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.