Quotes About Resolve

When we get there I say, "If anyone says you ran, point them out and I'll hit them." She grabs my arm. "I don't need you to fight my battles for me." "I'm not fighting for you. I just like punching people.

Gentry's neighbor is still blasting the same teeth-grating country pop he was playing last time I was here. When the frowning dumbass sticks his head into the hall to complain about the noise I stick the Colt in his face. "Play Taylor Swift one more time, motherfucker." He turtles his head back into his apartment and the music stops.

What do you want me to do?" says Kasabian. "I don't think Howard can get out of the bedroom, but if he does . . ." "I know. Punch him in the balls." "You got it.

It is easy to imagine grief as an ennobling, purifying emotion—uncluttering the mind of what is petty and transient, and illuminating the essential. In reality, of course, grief doesn't resolve anything, any more than a blow to the head or a devastating illness. It compounds stress and complication. It multiplies anxiety and tension. It opens fissures into cracks, and cracks into gaping chasms.

we were all driven by something that pushed us further than others dared to go. We were mission oriented and would do what we had to do to achieve it.

A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

There is no problem that cannot be solved. —NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?

The samurai lived by a simple creed – no hesitation, no doubt, no surprise, no fear.

There are a thousand ways to say no — but, I can't, it's impossible, it's too late — but there's only one way to say yes: with your whole being. When you do that you chose that word, it becomes the most spiritual word in the universe and your world can change.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

Credo quia impossibile

It's okay. Everything's going to be okay. You can let go of the sword." "I can't. I can't leave him alone. I have to protect him." "You have.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

Don't fight them anymore.I'm going to go with them." "No. I won't let them take you." "You have to," I begged. He was breathing hard, every part of him braced and ready to attack. We locked gazes, and a thousand messages seemed to flow between us as the old electricity crackled in the air.

Stop bitching and try again.