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Quotes About Resolve

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.
~ Marcel Proust
Ce n'est jamais qu'à cause d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives
~ Marcel Proust
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.
~ Marcel Proust
but what if God have seen, And death ensue? then I shall be no more, And Adam wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct; A death to think. Confirmed then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe: So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
~ John Milton
For saddies, encouragement is revelatory. Rather than making their resolve stronger, it will implant a resolve where none had been. "Because this person believes in me," the saddie thinks, "and this person is not me, they may have a point.
~ John Moe
Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
~ John Parker
Keep moving forward until we find something better to do, Hinchcliffe replied. Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn. I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant, Berg said with a grin. Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.
~ John Ringo
over the items and he tied
~ John Ringo
Take not counsel of your fears. We need to move!
~ John Ringo
If there is a will there is an A.
~ John Ritter
What Lucas would feel, instead, would be a murderous anger, an iceberg of hate. He would kill anyone who hurt Weather, Sam, or Letty. He'd be cold about it, he'd plan it, but the anger would never go away, and sooner or later, he would find them and kill them.
~ John Sandford
My core constituency will
~ John Sandford
One of the girls said, "I think you should go now." Virgil stood
~ John Sandford
This could be handled. Everything can be handled by he who waits.
~ John Sandford
THE BACK DOOR, what was left of it, scraped open again, and they could hear boot steps on the stoop, and Lucas said, "This is it, Grace. Who's going after Bowden? Give me something that'll give you a break." She shook her head. "Fuck you.
~ John Sandford
One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.
~ John Scalzi
I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.
~ John Scalzi
That left one missile. That one went to my best guess as to where Control was. Because fuck that guy.
~ John Scalzi
To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there
~ John Steinbeck
It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.
~ John Steinbeck
You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction.
~ John Steinbeck
No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.
~ John Steinbeck
I know this … a man got to do what he got to do.
~ John Steinbeck
Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma. Put away that jack handle 'fore you hurt somebody.
~ John Steinbeck