Quotes About Resolution

An old Chinese folk wisdom holds, "Of all the thirty-six ways to get out of trouble, the best way is—leave."10

Denying the truth would solve nothing.

Michael didn't know how or when it ended.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Closure is bullshit.

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument.

I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

In a sermon on a text from Proverbs—"adversity kills only where there is a weakness to be killed"—one of the North's leading clergymen expressed this new mood of grim resolution.

The Great Problem Solver, as it turned out, had been at work on a problem that I had only dimly comprehended.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

Our moods,' she asked. 'Are they perhaps something like thrusts—rhapsodic ones—toward stasis: self-finale?

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

Let us say that where the finite player plays to be powerful the infinite player plays with strength. A powerful person is one who brings the past to an outcome, settling all its unresolved issues. A strong person is one who carries the past into the future, showing that none of its issues is capable of resolution.

a finite game is to be won by someone it must come to a definitive end. It will come to an end when someone has won. We know that someone has won the game when all the players have agreed who among them is the winner. No other condition than the agreement of the players is absolutely required in determining who has won the game.

What is preserved by the constancy of numerical boundaries, of course, is the possibility that all contestants can agree on an eventual winner.

It was eventually revealed that the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was written before the alleged incident – i.e., the document was simply awaiting an excuse to activate it.

Paulie Pastrami learned that a misunderstanding could often be settled with a cupcake.

Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.

The worsening context of the war, which threatened the survival of the Union and the Constitution itself, provided a suitable resolution to this dilemma.

The board is clearing. The old game is almost played, and the pieces broken.

I dislike untidy wars, as I dislike untidy peacemaking.

It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with respect to which it is not easy to cut the tree.