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Quotes About Resolution

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
~ Ogden Nash
It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies
~ Viktor Yushchenko
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
~ Abdullah Ibrahim
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
~ Anthony Trollope
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.
~ Barbara Boxer
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
~ Jane Harman
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
~ Michael Ondaatje
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.
~ Shelley Long
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
~ William Barclay
The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Then, why did I do this, you ask?' He stroked his chin, like an actor trying to look deep and thoughtful. 'The short answer is: hope.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I shall pass over the somnambulism of desire, the abrupt resolution which sweeps away all others, the alacrity of a body which, finally, no longer obeys anything but itself. We often describe the happiness of a soul which disencumbers itself of the body; there are moments in life when the body disencumbers itself of the soul.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
~ Marianne Curley
You're afraid of feelings the way you're afraid of food: you're afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they're not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they're lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.
~ Marianne Williamson
Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved.
~ Mario Puzo
So for Ho, the point of war was to force the United States to negotiate.
~ Mark Bowden
You cannot truly win a conflict that you cannot truthfully define.
~ Mark Bowden
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.
~ Mark Helprin
Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life.
~ Mark Helprin
Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.
~ Mark Kurlansky
It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
~ Mark Kurlansky
nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty.
~ Mark Steyn