Quotes About Resolution

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

I made this resolution today. I will try to excel in all things yet if I am excelled, without fault of mine, I will not be mortified. I will not withhold from any one the praise which I think his due; nor will I allow myself to envy another's praise or to feel jealousy when I hear him praised. May God help me to keep it.

But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own. If I could walk into the house and say, "Froggy, I'm sorry I left." If I could hug him and unbutton his shirt and pick the petals from his hair. If I could do that, there would be no reason for me to fight this war.

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That's genius.

But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.

The only way out of this was to figure out a compromise they could both live with. Maybe I could convince Miles and Savannah to forgo the public apology if I met them over coffee. Maybe I could convince Evie to stop crying foul. And hey! After that maybe I could spin straw into gold!

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

The clean, clear ending that society keeps looking for is impossible to find.

Can we talk?" "Fuck off." "Good. You're willing to cooperate.

Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.