Quotes About Resolve

It was a matter of making the best job you can . . . and accepting your fate.

Now? The future and I are just about even, our quarrel all but resolved. I welcome its coming, and I resolve to be attentive to the details of its arrival. I plan to meet it at the station in my best white dress, violet corsage in hand. Waving

In every book she'd ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden their resolve.

it is better for us to fight for something than to live for nothing.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

It never occurred to her to give up.

Weak Forces I enjoy an accumulating faith in weak forces-- a weak faith, of course, easily shaken, but also easily regained--in what starts to drift: all the slow untrainings of the mind, the sift left of resolve sustained too long, the strange internal shift by which there's no knowing if this is the raod taken or untaken. There are soft affinities, possibly electrical; lint-like congeries; moonlit hints; asymmetrical pink glowy spots that are no the defeat of something, I don't think.

But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.

I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me.

Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows.

The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all.

You wanna fight? I asked. He looked up at me and, for just a second, hesitated, then said, Yeah. I do. Well, I'll save you the trouble. You win.

You will leave her alone," Gabriel said. "One way or another." "That sounds like a death threat, Walsh." "Then you lack imagination.

He emphasized murderous as if clarifying that he'd certainly believed me capable of making enemies, just not to that degree. I could have taken offense at that, but in Gabriel's world, if you aren't making the occasional enemy, you aren't trying hard enough.

I am going, I said. Not without me. Fine. But I'm not going. So neither are you.

So, what are you doing after school?" he asked. "You don't give up, do you?" "Nope, so you might as well surrender now." "And that's exactly what will make you back off, isn't it?" He arched his brows, as if he had no idea what I was talking about. "You like the chase," I said. "But once you get a girl, you back off before you can collect the prize. Kind of missing the point, I think.

I make the choice because it is one I can live with.

Because sometimes fighting wasn't the strong choice or the smart choice. It was just the stubborn, proud choice.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

When a man is certain that he knows God's will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

Never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

Quien correr se propone a caer se dispone.»

My father used to say: never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.