Quotes About Resolution

I've been in Scotland more lately than any of you. I tell you, there are twenty sides in that fight, never mind two, and when they get tired throwing things at each other, they'll all turn and stamp on the mediator.

Philippa … release me from my promise.' She put her hands over her mouth, and then took them away. 'I can't. I can't.' He had pulled his own hands down, looking still at the stool, his face quite turned away. 'You can. Philippa. Please let me go.'

I devised a somewhat arbitrary way out of my own difficulties that evening.

Level-headed and constructive to the end,' Philippa said, 'in confronting all your personal problems. And now? A trifle of hemlock?

Archie shrugged. 'All I know is what's going to happen.' Philippa said, 'What should I do?' And Archie said, 'Break him.

I take back the more personal insults if you will take back your arm without putting it to impious uses.

I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict

That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it the right way.

Es un error creer que cualquier problema importante puede solucionarse con ayuda de unas patatas.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.

It's often when you're talking over things that you seem to see your way clear. Your mind gets made up for you sometimes without your knowing how it's happened. Talking leads to a lot of things one way or another.

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

There's always a way out," said Anthony gloomily. "I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise

But rest assured, my indications will lead you to the truth." He paused. Then he said: "And perhaps, then, you would wish that they had not led you so far. You would say instead: 'Ring down the curtain.

Poirot said gravely: "He is not very rapid, the good Battle. He gets there slowly, but he does get there in the end, madame.

One little soldier boy left all alone." How did it end? Oh, yes! "He got married and then there were none.

Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.